A white blanket of snow covered the ground in Jackson County on the first day of spring. • The Smoky Mountain Mental Health Center, in cooperation with Jackson County Schools, initiated a new and ...

North Carolina is one of the fastest-growing states in the country. If present trends continue, we’ll surpass Georgia and become the eighth-most-populous state by 2030. There’s even an outside chance ...

On Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., the American Museum of the House Cat will host their Paws of Legacy event.

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On what was supposed to be a simple one-mile hike off an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, I managed to turn a peaceful afternoon stroll into an eleven-hour misadventure ...

Sylva resident Antoinette Puglisi MacWatt’s mother, Eula Mae Puglisi, traveled to Sylva in 1939. The 15 year old grew up in ...

The Lord’s Closet at Ochre Hill Baptist Church will be open from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, March 26 with free food boxes, a hot meal, and spring and summer clothing for ...

Jade Groen has broken the record for the most singles wins in Catamount women’s tennis program history. The history-making win came with her tenth singles victory of the season, boosting her overall ...

Unless there is a dietary reason for it, you ate bread this past week. That goes for all of us – bread is the most widely ...

Western Carolina football opens its annual spring drills on Monday, March 3, with the first of 15 NCAA-regulated practice sessions on the turf at E.J. Whitmire Stadium/Bob Waters Field culminating ...

A log falls to the ground as a sawyer tears into the hemlock tree that stood sentinel below the Jackson County Courthouse for ...