SPRUCE PINE — As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, Mitchell County residents are getting ready to mark ...

Scottie Williams Smallwood of Spruce Pine was pronounced dead at the scene following a nighttime collision last week. According to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, on June 17 at around 9:49 p.

One of the victims of 2024’s storm was Bakersville’s renowned North Carolina Rhododendron Festival, which lost its centrality downtown, due to the damage to the Cane Creek park and the businesses ...

Even more than a year after Helene devastated Western North Carolina, state and local officials have estimated that hundreds of millions of dollars are still being directed toward recovery efforts in ...

Grassy Creek Golf Course, a cornerstone of the Spruce Pine community, has once again changed hands. In the summer of 2022, the Waterfront Group, a Cornelius, NC-based company, acquired the property ...

The Mitchell Economic Development Commission (EDC) and the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce will be working to assist local residents affected by last week’s announcement of a significant workforce ...

The Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual member dinner last week. The Chamber used the event as an opportunity to announce its new app, Hello Mitchell. The app will offer users ...

As Nick Whitson walks through his family’s flood-devastated properties in Green Mountain, a question recurs: What can be saved? But for Whitson, “can” is the wrong word. His family has run O.C.

How did the Toe River get its name? What retired MIT chemistry professor founded a free lending library in Mitchell County with over 10,000 books in 1885? How many generations of the Woody Family has ...

The North Carolina License Plate Agency has reopened in Spruce Pine. The office closed in October due to the retirement of longtime operator Sabra Franklin. Mitchell County and the NC Division of ...

Mayland Community College staffers and others recently gathered to hear pitches from the three top candidates to replace President John Boyd. Boyd plans to retire, and the Mayland Community College ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is concerned that there has not been enough funding available to speed up disaster recovery in Western North Carolina, according to an address delivered to the ...