Shining Rock Classical Academy’s governing board is weighing whether to end its high school operations by summer after a new ...

Over the past decade or more, Western North Carolina Republicans have proven that the only candidates that can beat incumbent ...

They left campus on foot — with signs raised, chants echoing across the valley under clear blue winter skies — turning a routine civic act into a noisy, high-visibility public rebuke. On Feb. 13, ...

Here’s why the original neocon thinkers — people such as Irving Kristol, James Q. Wilson, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Daniel ...

Some people eat to live, and others live to eat. I fall into the latter camp, which is why I’ve been both confused and fascinated by the fasting trend that has flooded the health and wellness movement ...

Growing up, watching Miss America, Miss USA and Miss Universe were exciting times in our house. My sister and I were starstruck little girls enamoured with the glitz and glamour of 1980s beauty ...

Swain County commissioners held a Feb. 3 work session with updates about animal shelter funding and the interim county ...

Few Primary races across the region have drawn the attention that the contest for Haywood County Sheriff has seen.  Squaring ...

The most powerful person in any North Carolina county is the sheriff, an elected position mandated by the state constitution.

Out with the old, in with the new: time for reflection, perhaps resolve; certainly time to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies. As Lord Chesterfield believed, “that refuse of fools and cowards ...

As the sun set over Canton on Feb. 11, the scene at the town’s makeshift municipal building more closely resembled that of a trendy big-city nightclub. More than 100 people had lined up outside, ...

Jackson, Swain and Transylvania counties — now unfolds against a backdrop of unresolved disaster recovery and rising voter frustration with a legislature that has struggled to deliver a state budget ...