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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In the seven months since Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountains and valleys of Western North Carolina, there’s been one ...

Dear Rep. Chuck Edwards. It's been a little while, and your defense of the tariffs still has no legs. But that's not why I'm ...

David Moore and Darren Whatley place a lot of value on public education, having both attended public universities. Moore is ...

I would like to thank the local author David Joy for speaking out about the removal of the plaque from the Confederate statue ...

The “Mother’s Day Gemboree” will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 9-10 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 11 at the Macon County ...