A pair of local bills pushed by Rep. Mark Pless (R-Haywood) — one welcomed by most, another, not so much — took important ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will offer the first Cades Cove vehicle-free day of the year on June 18. Vehicle-free ...

In May, a very special anniversary issue of the Asheville Poetry Review was released for public consumption celebrating 30 ...

Smokies Life is thrilled to announce its first audiobook, a narrated adaptation of the 2021 release for middle-grade readers, ...

Next week, award-winning graphic novelist Andrew Aydin will return to Haywood County to help kick off an ambitious new ...

There are few, if any, occasions that take place in a Haywood County courtroom that are as joyous as a celebration for ...

Westernmost North Carolina Sen. Kevin Corbin (R-Macon) has been named the legislator of the year by the North Carolina ...

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is providing guidance to livestock owners on methods to protect their animals ...

The First Presbyterian Church of Waynesville has created a coupon book offering discounts to Waynesville merchants who lost ...

In early April, a U.S. Forest Service office in East Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest issued a memo inviting the public ...

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation SBI, in partnership with the Henderson County Drug Interdiction and Criminal ...

My office is cool and our building on Montgomery Street in Waynesville is quiet. Almost everyone who works at The Smoky ...