The Smoky Mountain News is hosting a forum for the three candidates running for Haywood County Sheriff in 2026. Sheriff Bill ...

The nature of growth requires counties to constantly develop and improve to keep facilities safe, reliable and up to ...

Western North Carolina is a region defined by resilience. Mountain communities have endured floods, factory closures, rising ...

People from these mountains have gone on to do some pretty great things, but it’s hard to imagine someone in quite a while ...

If there were an award for being hardest to find while holding an important job, Michael Whatley would have no competition, ...

We never thought that Micromanager of the Year would become a repeat award, but here we are. This year’s micromanagers of the ...

Jackson County’s various governing boards spent much of the year demonstrating that governing does not require attendance, ...

The Roadless Rule Recission is genuinely so unpopular to have perhaps been inspired by a claim that Trump couldn’t possibly ...

Western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene showed clearly that resilience is built not just by government plans ...

When Eric Spirtas and Two Banks Development LLC bought the dormant Canton mill property in early January from global ...

While President Donald Trump ran on slimming government bureaucracy — ostensibly the stated aim of the Department of ...