Representatives and community leaders recently gathered to recognize the $10 million fund that AmeriHealth Caritas, N.C., ...

Judge Matthew Rupp ordered Horizon 30 to stop mining and removing rock from its site on N.C. Highway 197 in Poplar after a hearing at the Watauga County Courthouse Monday morning. The Nor ...

Gloria Thomas of Poplar speaks to the Mitchell Board of Commissioners about her experiences living across from the controversial new Horizon 30 mine. Th ...

The Mitchell County Board of Commissioner re-appointed several county officials in its first meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal year recently.

A resident of the Beech Creek development near Bakersville spoke to the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners last week, seeking help with bridge repair and debris collection.

The Spruce Pine Town Council met last week to discuss water and sewer funding, among other town business items. Water/sewer grant The council v ...

Mitchell County Finance Officer Mavis Parsley told the Board of Commissioners last week that she is asking department heads to hold back on some budgeted expenses until outstanding disaster recover ...

Sarah Atkins [email protected] Although the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce will not host the N.C. Mineral and Gem Festival ...

Mountain Community Health Partnership held a groundbreaking Friday for its new development on a 105-acre lot in Grassy Creek. MCHP’s planned 27-thousand-foot facility is designed as an ...

Sarah Atkins [email protected] “Our wildlife and communities are not for sale,” said Jeanne Miraglia at a public hear ...

Friday, July 11 was a particularly busy day at Penland’s U.S. Post Office, as artists and instructors leaving the Penland School of Craft’s latest two-week session descended on the building wit ...

During the protracted miners’ strike in West Virginia’s Cabin Creek and Paint Creek region in 1913, a company storekeeper and his family play out the conflict’s issues inside their home, fuel ...