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

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 ...

Friday night accident claims life of Sylva man By Carey Phillips A Sylva man died in a one-vehicle accident around 11 p.m. Friday on Fisher Creek Road. Trooper Denny Wood of the N.C. Highway Patrol ...

Brent Pry, an assistant football coach at Western Carolina, is facing charges in connection with an incident early Sunday morning at Thunder Ridge, a Maggie Valley night club.

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

We’re looking forward to the day when our new library will open on Courthouse Hill, and area residents in 1928 apparently shared a similar sense of anticipation.

Local school officials and the county's top law enforcer have asked for the dismissal of a January legal action brought against them by the mother of a teen involved in last year's sex scandal at Blue ...

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.

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.

Lady Bird Johnson, the only First Lady ever to visit Jackson County, and Franz Whitmire, a former high school principal and county commissioner, both died last Wednesday (July 11).