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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SearcySylva native and Hollywood movie star Nick Searcy will serve as honorary chairperson for Jackson County WalkAmerica 2001, according to March of Dimes Community Director Bunny Wilson.Searcy, who ...

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 ...

Although they were eligible to play according to school rules, Coach Jamie Extine elected to hold them out of Friday’s 9-8 win over Bandys in the first round of the state 2-A playoffs. Extine said ...

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.

Lady Bird, Franz die on same dayLady Bird and Franz met on March 14, 1967, when the First Lady came to the mountains for a firsthand look at one of the battle lines in her husband’s War on Poverty.

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 ...

Xavier Godard, a former Western Carolina football player, died Wednesday (Aug. 29) as a result of a drowning accident at Cedar Cliff Lake in Tuckasegee’s Canada community.

She and her son and daughter were able to learn a lot about asthma, which both of her children have, she said. There was also a very informative booth on native plants used by Native American tribes ...