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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From the mountains of Western North Carolina to the streets of London, the “Baddest Band in the Land” is preparing for its next international performance. Western Carolina University’s Pride of the ...

Western Carolina University (WCU) has concluded its ambitious “Fill the Western Sky” comprehensive fundraising campaign with ...

Flipping the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2028 is one of state Democrats’ top goals. If the party can bring home a win for ...

No matter where you were in the world, spring 2020 was a time of fear and uncertainty. The expanding COVID-19 pandemic ...

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 ...