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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, the plaintiff has amended her original suit to include an allegation that Jackson County Sheriff Jim Cruzan knew the deputy assigned to serve as school resource officer at Blue Ridge had ...

• 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 ...

Judge Brad Letts sentenced Tracy Ann Curtis, 45, to not less than 52 nor more than 72 months with the N.C. Department of Corrections. Curtis, who listed a Beechwood Drive address in Sylva, was charged ...