While illegal in North Carolina, marijuana has one refuge in the state: the Qualla Boundary. In Cherokee, North Carolina, the Great Smoky Cannabis Co. brands itself as the only legal cannabis ...

For one writer, hitting the trails in rural North Carolina means freedom on two wheels. Growing up in western North Carolina, ...

Cherokee Indian Hospital sits on the Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a 57,000-acre land trust owned by the tribe. The hospital is designed to echo Cherokee history ...

An Asheville church is bringing attention to local missing and murdered Indigenous women with a visual art installation.

Over the past seven months, MANNA FoodBank has distributed more than 12 million pounds of emergency food and resources across its 16-county service region in WNC and the Qualla Boundary ...

Today, many of their descendants live in the Qualla Boundary, tribe-purchased land that shares a border with the park. When Congress established the National Park Service in 1916, it was illegal ...

In conjunction with the Madison County Community Foundation, the North Carolina Community Foundation has awarded $180,000 in grants from its Disaster Relief Fund to the following local organizations ...

Growing up in western North Carolina, in the Qualla Boundary—often referred to as the Cherokee Indian Reservation— was much like growing up in any small, rural mountain town. We learned to ...

More recently, it’s led him to a hospital in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Cherokee Indian Hospital sits on the Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a 57,000-acre ...

Growing up in western North Carolina, in the Qualla Boundary—often referred to as the Cherokee Indian Reservation— was much like growing up in any small, rural mountain town. We learned to love ...