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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last week the North Carolina General Assembly passed a conference report, also referred to as a mini budget that includes ...

I had the privilege of sitting and talking with a group of adolescents who weren’t my own children or my friends’ children.