For the first time in nearly three years, the trail to Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s tallest waterfall is fully open ...

Susi Gott Séguret, author, chef, fiddler, songwriter, was born and raised in Madison County, where she holds frequent ...

Eight bowl games are set to take place across Saturday's schedule. Here's what you need to know, including start times, how to watch and scores.

The Haywood Ice Fest continues with a winter birding walk at Lake Junaluska, snowball wars at Smoky Mountain Sk8way, an ice ...

Welcome to the USA TODAY Network’s recruiting ladder, a statewide feature from reporter Joe Hughes highlighting prospects on the rise each week of the 2024 high school football season.

Though the heavy rain will likely be beneficial to the unusually dry conditions of the WNC region, Chaney added that it could ...

Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill that will send more disaster relief funding to North Carolina and other states ...

Many people lost their cars during Tropial Storm Helene. Working Wheels matches people with good pre-owned cars so they can ...

The Duke Foundation provided nearly $15 million to agencies in North Carolina and South Carolina working on the recovery ...

Now that the third round of the NCHSAA football playoffs is over, the field has been whittled to 32 teams. Some of the biggest upsets of the third round include No. 19 Kinston, which stunned No. 6 ...

Two more Western North Carolina football teams were eliminated in the third round of the NCHSAA playoffs, leaving three teams still standing. Two of those teams are set to face off for a spot in ...

North Carolina high school football is brimming with prospects soon to be playing on Saturdays, with a smattering of those to be showcased as part of this weekend’s NCHSAA state championships.