The owner of a family run logging company in Swain County died in a freak accident Tuesday while on the job. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said, Dewayne Larry Woodard who owned Woodard Logging, ...

Heavy overnight rains are being blamed for a landslide that shutdown a Macon County Road for most of the day Sunday. Officials say some of the debris was loosened by all the moisture Saturday night ca ...

Lee Crites (center), a 2010 graduate of SCC’s Physical Therapist program, recently set up an endowed scholarship fund at his alma mater. Standing with Crites are Brett Woods (left), Director of the SC ...

Chancellor Kelli Brown Business North Carolina magazine included Chancellor Kelli R. Brown of Western Carolina University in its Power List 2022 of the state’s most influential leaders in a variety of ...

Walking across the same stage on which they’ll one day receive their college degrees, seventh-graders from Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties were inducted into the New Century Scholars program on Tues ...

Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced James Julius Lumpkin, of Sevierville, Tennessee, to 156 months in prison and five years of supervised release for drug trafficking, announce ...

Christopher Munton Announced as new CEO of Harris Regional & Swain Community Hospitals Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital today announced that Christopher Munton has been named ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway will receive approximately $127 million in Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) funding for two major infrastructure projects in the country’s most-visited national park.     “Gen ...

Cades Cove Road Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that the Cades Cove Loop Road will be fully closed beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 24 through 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Ap ...

Mason Branch New public access to the Valley River is coming to the Hiwassee watershed, after Mainspring Conservation Trust conserved almost 30 acres in Cherokee County. Situated on Mason Branch, the ...