The North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council has classified most of the state as at least abnormally dry with only ...

By this point, more than six months after Hurricane Helene barreled through Western North Carolina, it’s a common sight.

I appreciate your straightforward and informative coverage of the removal of the plaque over Sylva Sam’s Confederate flag. I ...

Plant Sale will be 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym.   For sale will be a few thousand ...

The Jackson County ‘Headwaters District’ Conservation Plan seeks to apply an objective, fact-based approach to assessing the ...

REACH, the Haywood County nonprofit that provides aid to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, has a new director.

Here in Western North Carolina, we know the value of independence, personal responsibility and limited government. That’s why ...

Since President Trump, by the will of the majority of American voters, has come into office he has given a multitude of ...

A new business focused on printing giclees officially opened in Waynesville last week.  Smoky Mountain Studios, a sister ...

In a town where history lives not just in the pages of books but on every brick-lined sidewalk, beneath every gabled rooftop ...

In response to a public records request made by The Smoky Mountain News, Jackson County Manager Kevin King revealed that ...

As a young child, growing up right outside of London, Dan Tapster fondly remembers watching David Attenborough’s nature ...