Today, we will be discussing a somewhat sticky subject – thistles. Thistles have been largely relegated into the noxious weed ...

The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation has announced the start of its 2025 LIFT Grant cycle. The Health Foundation’s LIFT Grants will support and fund programs focusing on one or more ...

THE 49TH HASKETT REUNION will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19 at the Webster Baptist Church Fellowship Room, with a pot luck lunch at noon. Hasketts are descendants ...

This week in local history: ...

- Herald photo by Lisa Majors-DuffRebecca Dutsch of Andrews, whose mother, Kathy Dutsch, did not receive a paycheck for three weeks in December from her employer, Immediate Med Services, began ...

The man generally considered the greatest athlete ever produced in Jackson County has died. Jimmy Streater, 46, passed away Friday at Blue Ridge Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Asheville.

When the new Jackson County Department on Aging complex opens later this month, seniors will have access to all of the county’s aging services in one place.

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Ridge baseball standout Cody Goodwin has been named to the 1-A All-State team by the N.C. Baseball Coaches Association. He really put together a terrific year and is very deserving of these ...

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.

Following a weekend sting operation in the Cullowhee area, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office arrested six individuals on drug charges. "We will be filing more charges in this sting operation," ...