Drake Barlow walks up to home plate with the most swagger out of anyone on game days. He sports a sick pair of shades, some Catamount gear and a toothy grin that coaches across the Southern Conference ...

It’s wildflower season in the Great Smoky Mountains, and beneath the long morning shadows at Chestnut Tops Trail near Townsend, Tennessee, Tom Harrington is in his element. We’ve barely reached the ...

Retired Air Force Col. Moe Davis is stepping back into familiar turf — running for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th ...

Rep. Mark Pless is taking heat from local paramedics and EMTs after introducing a pair of bills that first responders say ...

The garden gnomes stared at me from our cluttered carport, dirty and bored, no blooming flowers to observe or tomato vines to ...

Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Historic Frog Level District of ...

The Town of Canton is currently wrestling with one of the ugliest budget conundrums in decades due to a combination of ...

Appalachian True Heritage Festival will be held May 2-3 on Main Street in Waynesville. Dubbed “An Evening Under the Arch,” ...

The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Friends of the Smokies, is beginning a multi-year rehabilitation of the ...

Master gardener volunteers will be on hand at a booth on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, May through August, ...

Recovery from Hurricane Helene hasn’t been a partisan affair — on the ground, at least — but North Carolina’s 11th ...

Wayne Caldwell will present his latest novel, “Shadow Family,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. ...