The Paraguariensis tree or Paraguayan Holly, with its holly-like leaves, grows to over 26 feet in height in subtropical ...

Macon County officials held a press conference last week to address illegal political signs and get ahead of some ...

The following are winners in the N.C. Mountain State Fair’s opening weekend poultry, rabbit, sheep, goat and beef cattle ...

After multiple rounds of public opposition to proposed changes to Sylva’s panhandling ordinance, the board decided to dismiss ...

On a sunny morning, I met Robin Arramae at Panacea Coffee House in the Frog Level District of Waynesville. We sat on the back ...

After 34 years of service to the state of North Carolina, Cameron Ingram, executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife ...

As days grow shorter in the Great Smoky Mountains, the colorful landscape hums with life. Creatures large and small scurry ...

I had the opportunity to speak by phone with writer and podcaster Jennifer L. Scott. The author of the Madame Chic books — ...

I am sending this in hopes that it might save some of my neighbors in Franklin and other WNC communities some aggravation and ...

As my grandmother used to say, the MAGA party “doesn’t have the sense it was born with.”   The MAGA presidential candidate — ...

After more than a decade of leadership in Macon County, Derek Roland announced last week that he intends to resign his ...

He fought to get on the ballot, and then fought to get off the ballot.  Now, after a favorable ruling from North Carolina’s ...