As the Fontana Regional Library sizes up a monumental change coming into the focus over the hill like a band of Vandals looking to sack Rome, its outgoing attorney, Rady Large, offers a simple piece ...

Two weeks after instigating the removal of a resolution supporting the Fontana Regional Library from a Sylva Board of Commissioners meeting agenda — and just moments after scorching public comments ...

If you’re like me, you avoid driving I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge like warm beer on a hot summer day. Hey, if I have to circle through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas to enter ...

On the five-year anniversary of the death of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis, more than 170 people clad in black and white gathered on the steps of the Haywood County ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seeking individuals to join the Elk Rover volunteer team for the upcoming 2025 season. Elk Rovers share information with visitors about safe wildlife viewing and ...

The annual Front Street Arts & Crafts Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in downtown Dillsboro.   Dozens of booths lining Front Street will display handmade items ...

The detailing of this process, according to Klaven, is provided by a 19th century philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche, and you will be forgiven if you never heard of him or why anyone should take ...

Snakes tend to scare people. Believe me, I get it. Being named Adam and being an avid gardener, stories of snakes and apples and Eve have followed me my whole life. Snakes have been demonized by ...

Regional rock/jam group Arnold Hill will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at The Scotsman Public House in Waynesville. Formed in 2011, the Jackson County band is named after a road in Sylva where ...

A regional Americana/bluegrass act, Granny’s Mason Jar will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.  Following in the footsteps of Doc Watson, Norman ...

Candidates across Western North Carolina have begun filing for the 2025 municipal elections, which will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, but there are still a few days left until the lists become ...

To the Editor: I’m not finding many things to laugh about these days, so I want to give a shout out to the author of the letter “Harassing public officials is wrong” in the July 9 issue. His letter ...