The Smoky Mountain News is hosting a forum for the three candidates running for Haywood County Sheriff in 2026. Sheriff Bill ...

If there were an award for being hardest to find while holding an important job, Michael Whatley would have no competition, ...

Western North Carolina pulled into the congressional drive-thru after Hurricane Helene, placed a large order and waited. And ...

People from these mountains have gone on to do some pretty great things, but it’s hard to imagine someone in quite a while ...

Two of the trends/fads that you can expect to see reflected in products on the shelves at your local Ingles Markets are ...

Jackson County’s various governing boards spent much of the year demonstrating that governing does not require attendance, ...

Western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene showed clearly that resilience is built not just by government plans ...

The Roadless Rule Recission is genuinely so unpopular to have perhaps been inspired by a claim that Trump couldn’t possibly ...

The nature of growth requires counties to constantly develop and improve to keep facilities safe, reliable and up to ...

We never thought that Micromanager of the Year would become a repeat award, but here we are. This year’s micromanagers of the ...

While President Donald Trump ran on slimming government bureaucracy — ostensibly the stated aim of the Department of ...

When Eric Spirtas and Two Banks Development LLC bought the dormant Canton mill property in early January from global ...