Murphy – Road-closing rock slides and clean-up from flooding followed a drenching storm early April 7. The storm caused ...

Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Andrews Public Library assistant Karen Taylor shows various plant starts during a recent ...

Nicole Wright/Staff Correspondent Tony Bryant’s personal collection of Native American artifacts will be on display Saturday, ...

Murphy – Local businesses Narrative Bookstore and Downtown Pizza Co. have partnered to create a new reading program called ...

Raleigh – The N.C. Supreme Court issued rulings Friday in the contested results for a seat on that court exempting local ...

What do you think of President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” on all other countries, which have been paused?

North Carolina has long been a testing ground for efforts to silence voters. From extreme gerrymandering to relentless and restrictive voter ID laws, we’ve seen lawmakers chip away at freedom to ...

Murphy – Sheriff’s Lt. Milton “Sport” Teasdale will no longer be called as a prosecution witness in criminal cases after the district attorney told him he has shown a patte ...

Murphy – A judge has blocked access to the evidence room at the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office because of missing evidence, and a State Bureau of Investigation probe is in pr ...

Asheville – A federal jury returned a guilty verdict on April 8 against Stephanie Miranda Neace, 32, of Blairsville, Ga., for the 2023 kidnapping and robbery of an elderly ...

Murphy – Chicken Soup for the Soul and Christian author William Clark held his 10th annual book-signing event at Living Waters Bookstore from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Satu ...

Ogreeta – High Lonesome Therapeutic Equestrian Center held an Easter event Saturday to bring the community together, celebrate their riders and give residents an opportunity to s ...