Mountain biking isn’t just an extreme sport. For one writer, hitting the trails in rural North Carolina means freedom on two wheels.

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 ...

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 ...

The EBCI voted in 2021 to legalize the sale of medical marijuana within its tribal territory known as the Qualla Boundary. Cherokee is a sovereign nation that has its own elections, laws ...

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

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 ...

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 ...