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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Mitchell High School golf team won the NCHSAA Men's Golf 2A West Region recently at Grassy Creek Golf and Country Club and secured their spot in the state championship at Gates Four Golf Club in ...

LINVILLE — Mayland Community College hosted its ninth annual Murder Mystery Dinner recently at Linville Falls Winery, bringing together students and community members for an evening of food, ...

The Spruce Pine Town Council voted last week to accept an almost $5 million grant from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to help pay for improved water infrastructure. "It's ...

Heading across the Highland Avenue Bridge toward downtown Spruce Pine last Saturday morning, a pungent note of coal smoke filled the air. In the distance, Lower Street (Locust Avenue) had become an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paxton Media Group (PMG) has acquired nine community newspapers in the Murphy and Franklin regions of western North Carolina and north Georgia from Community Newspapers, Inc. (CNI), based in Athens, ...

Toe River Arts hosted a closing reception for the Mitchell County Student Art Showcase in the Owen Gallery last week. The exhibition, which ran for the past month, concluded with events on March 20 ...