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

“We have had multiple meetings about naming the middle school, whether it’s going to focus on career and technical education and all the things,” she said in April. “I think there is a consensus that ...

“The political world we live in today needs more men and women with the quality of character and integrity that Charles Elders exhibited,” former Jackson County Commissioner Chairman Brian McMahan ...

The 31-year-old Pry, who listed an address of Red Barn Lane, Sylva, is charged with driving while impaired and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, according to Capt. R.S. Sutton of ...

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 ...

• Were shown copies of information that will be sent home with every high school student on the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Common Core is a set of standards that establishes goals at ...

Thornburg was previously appointed to a seat on the N.C. Court of Appeals, but lost a 2004 bid for election to the post. Prior to that he was a member of the law firm of Patla, Straus, Robinson & ...

On February 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was founded. This week February 8th through 14th is the 35th anniversary of Scouting.Sylva Boy Scouts are celebrating the event in numerous ways. They ...

“Everything is so much quicker and computerized,” he said. “You can pull somebody over now and anywhere they’re wanted in the United States you’re going to know it in minutes. We used to have a ticket ...

Whoever Smith sets as his target, he may have a hard time luring him to Cullowhee. Being men s basketball coach at Western Carolina has been akin to a career-killing job. Since the legendary Jim ...

Justin Michael Arch, 30, Cherokee – Possess drug paraphernalia; two counts of possessing/concealing stolen property; larceny; breaking and entering of a motor vehicle-forcible; injury to real property ...

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 ...