Asheville made international headlines last week when its Omni Grove Park Inn hosted the Group of 20 finance track summit.  The summit is an annual global forum aimed at securing financial stability ...

Marquee bluegrass ensemble Authentic Unlimited will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Authentic Unlimited is a dynamic ...

Presented by the Center for Domestic Peace, the Blue Ridge Peace Fest will host an array of local musical acts from 2-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. Artists to appear ...

Journalist Karen Hao began covering OpenAI in 2019. OpenAI was one of the early companies trying to build AI.  Hao, a ...

Jackson County Commissioners voted 4-1 to shoot down a $105 million school bond referendum at their Sept. 1 meeting, leaving ...

Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) announced 18 farms participating in the 2026 farm tour, taking place from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 19–20. Tourgoers will experience working farms through ...

Twenty-five years. It didn’t dawn on me until one of my colleagues mentioned it in our editorial meeting last week. But, yes, ...

Haywood Community College in Clyde cut the ribbon on the new outdoor workforce training facility that will be an integral part of numerous educational programs offered at the college. Programs using ...

An acclaimed Americana/bluegrass act, the Darren Nicholson Band will hit the stage for an intimate performance at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley. A ...

Arielle Hebert will share her debut poetry collection, “Bottom Feeders,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at City Lights ...

Our newsroom began talking a couple of months ago about pulling together a few stories to mark the 25th year since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that so profoundly changed this country. The memories are ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which covers seven states in the Southeast including a portion of Western North Carolina, just passed a new rate for data centers. At the latest quarterly board ...