When Tara McCoy first began teaching pottery in 2016, it was her least favorite artistic medium, trumped by shell carving, ...

The Smoky Mountain News has sent various public record requests throughout the past month to Swain County administration, all ...

As unaffiliated voters have overtaken Republicans and Democrats as the largest voting group in the state, candidates running ...

As crowds gather and fireworks explode to mark what to some is a purely celebratory moment, America 250 arrives for others as a complicated, dissonant occasion. In Western North Carolina, Eastern Band ...

A skirmish between a colonial militia and Cherokee warriors was waged in Western North Carolina in 1776. But where exactly the battle was fought is a matter for debate. Tensions had been rising ...

Hello from the second floor of an apartment building on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. It’s mid-morning and ...

This is the final installment of a three-part review of “Buddha.” Siddhatta Gotama, born in northern India around 500 BCE, ...

Fontana Regional Library System’s board of trustees met June 22 to discuss an agenda initially littered with items that had ...

The “Independence Day Celebration” will be held June 28 through July 5 at the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center. The ...

The Town of Franklin has announced that Sarah Bishop has been named as the Assistant Town Manager/Finance Director effective ...

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Great Smoky Mountains National Park in September 1940, all of America was contemplating what the metastasizing international conflict we now know as ...