• Jerry Gaines achieved the unbelievable feat of making All-American in three different sports when he was named to the ...

Before he left office last week, Gov. Mike Easley announced the appointment of Alan Thornburg of Asheville to the 28th Judicial District Superior Court bench in Buncombe County.

Jackson County Schools has established a servant leadership award in honor of the late Steve Jones, a longtime administrator for Jackson County Schools.

By Dave RussellJackson County Public Schools has three of 10 schools with a version of Smoky in them following Tuesday night’s vote by the Board of Education to add “Smoky Mountain Middle School” to ...

Elders was a three-term county commissioner, serving from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2010 to 2018.

On Sunday, July 6, in cooperation with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the North Shore Cemetery Association will host decorations on the North Shore of Fontana Lake at Proctor ...

This picture of local Boy Scouts is believed to have been taken shortly after the organization's 35th anniversary celebration in 1945 in front of the old Sylva School, next to ...

Fifty-two years, nine guns and three retirements later, Sylva Police Officer J.P. Gallardo is ready to catch some bass and trout.

Steve Shurina has been removed as men s basketball coach at Western Carolina and reassigned to a teaching position at the school.

The following persons were arrested by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office between Feb. 27 and March 4.

GordonToren Gordon, a reserve fullback on Western Carolina's football team, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with an incident last week at a Maggie Valley night club.The ...

A woman charged with embezzling more than $230,000 from a Sylva medical practice was sentenced to between four and six years in prison after pleading guilty during an April 27 administrative term of ...