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Beginning Jan. 6, Haywood County residents over the age of 75, who have not already been included in a previous…
One fond childhood memory involves a yellow fiberglass canoe and the Yadkin River. My dad, one of my younger brothers,…
Starting Monday, Jan. 11, the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville will resume its normal winter hours of 8 a.m. to 7…
By Geoff Cantrell • Contributing writer | In a typical school year, Highlands Biological Station serves nearly 10,000 students through…
By Jonathan Austin • Contributing writer | A recently documented bee species has been identified living in the Great Smoky…
How does one best express gratitude? That thought kept coming up as I sat down to write a column for…
By Heather Hyatt Packer • Guest Columnist | There’s a lot of discussion about freedom, rights and patriotism when discussing…
To the Editor: “Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government, or any action (especially in speech or writing) promoting such…
To the Editor: I am worried. Our newly elected congressman Madison Cawthorn contests what he has tweeted about as the…
To the Editor: Arts organizations have had an extraordinarily challenging time during the pandemic, and it’s been no different for…
A group of 14 tribal members that includes two sitting Tribal Council members and a former principal chief has entered…
The COVID-19 death count in Jackson County nearly doubled over the holiday season, increasing from 10 as of Nov. 25…
One of the loudest voices against masks and vaccines during recent public comment sessions in Haywood County also serves on…
On a frosty Appalachian mountain morning in 1962, 22-year-old Waynesville man Charles Miller brought his car to a stop on…
After a four-month investigation into the sudden death of a 25-year-old Cherokee man inside the Swain County Detention Center, the…
A Nov. 3 report by the Haywood County Sheriff’s Office demonstrating the need for a $16 million expansion to the…
Grabbing a seat inside Mad Anthony’s Taproom in downtown Waynesville one recent evening, Benji Boessel and Alex Tinsley can’t help…
It was somewhere around the the second mile of my New Year’s Eve jog that I realized that day marked…
In the week since the last press release, Haywood County Public Health has received notice of 327 new cases of…
The mountain counties of Western North Carolina posted yet another strong month of home sales in November according to the…
Haywood County Health and Human Services is reporting six more COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number now to 68.
On Monday, Jan. 4, Down Home North Carolina Haywood and local community members will hold a press conference to announce…
RALEIGH —The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced beginning Jan. 4, households can apply for the Low-Income…
Three Macon County residents diagnosed with COVID-19 have passed away. The persons were over the age of 65 and had…
Former National Park Service Director Gary Everhardt passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27, following a battle with COVID-19 and just days after…
Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency has begun distribution of its first allotment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The Junaluska Sanitary District experienced a discharge of untreated sewage from a broken sewer main.
There’s been a lot of focus lately on all the ways that the last 12 months have been hard and…
The N.C. Agricultural Hall of Fame now has three new members following the induction of John Holman Cyrus, Fred N.…
Rob Young, director of Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, was recently appointed by Virginia Gov.…
Biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are asking the public, particularly anglers, to submit any sightings of mudpuppies to…
All families have their secrets, but some families have deeper and darker secrets than others. In June Titus’s novel Banjo Man…
This year has prompted a reckoning unlike any in memory, so we’re all looking to put a bow on 2020…
In February 2020, I was in New York City attending a children’s book writing conference. My boyfriend attended the conference…
To the Editor: Republicans seem to have given up on our Constitution and democracy. Instead, they have opted to follow…
To the Editor: Your recent report about Waynesville’s Emergency Ordinance (“Waynesville passes State of Emergency ordinance”) includes a description of Janet…
To the Editor: I recently read an article that asked, “What will be your story of 2020?” I’ve since given…
By Cory Vaillancourt • Fake News Editor | When I started writing this yearly feature five years ago, it was…
They say hindsight is 2020 and that is definitely true as we’re all eager to put this disaster of a…
Macon County Human Services building (which includes the Department of Social Services, Macon County Public Health, and Code Enforcement) was…
Macon County has identified a rabies positive raccoon. The raccoon was turned over to Macon County Animal Services after it…
In the pantheon of legendary jam-grass acts, a handful of pioneering bands broke new ground in the 1980s and 1990s…
Christmas Eve. Downtown Waynesville. Sitting alone in my one-bedroom apartment, I was bummed that I couldn’t be back home in…
Between Dec. 23 and Dec. 28, Haywood County Public Health has received notice of 185 new cases of COVID-19.
Macon County Public Health has identified a COVID-19 cluster of positive cases in Macon County’s 9-1-1 Communication Center.
Macon County Public Health has identified a COVID-19 cluster of positive cases at the nonprofit Macon Program for Progress.
Teachers from across North Carolina have been selected as finalists for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching…
Between Dec. 18 and Dec. 21, Haywood County Public Health has received notice of 129 new cases of COVID-19.
To allow all employees an opportunity to get tested for COVID-19 after the winter break, Southwestern Community College will be…
Ceasars Entertainment and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians today released a formal announcement regarding the sale of operations at…
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