May 19, 2026 The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and ...

We hit 92 degrees in Greensboro on Monday, the first 90 degree day since August 2025. More 90s are on the way.

North Carolina still has small towns where porch views, old storefronts, and mountain roads make the map feel like it left ...

There’s a town tucked so far into the western corner of North Carolina that you’re practically in Tennessee and Georgia at ...

Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, is installing ...

The headwaters of the world-famous New River are right here in the High Country, with a few creeks combining in Boone to form ...

Staunton, Va.'s Thornrose Cemetery is a stone's throw from my desk. Just over the hill. Some 1,700 Confederate dead are buried there. The general monument says that there are 20 Arkansas men among the ...

Crowders Mountain State Park in Kings Mountain, North Carolina offers a refreshing alternative, a place where you can trade ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A judge sentenced Sarah Boone to life in prison Monday after a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder in October. Boone had been charged in connection with the 2020 death of ...

Following the closed session, Neisler said council voted six to one to give Carpenter a 2% raise. He said he was the lone ...

Wildlife officials say the pattern is typical for this time of year.