WEST JEFFERSON — North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green will be the guest speaker at the Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson on Monday, Jan. 19 as part of the annual Martin Luther King Day ...

MILLERS CREEK — West Wilkes picked up 11 wins in the 14 weight classes, beating the Huskies by a 60-18 score on Jan. 16. Ashe County won the 120, 144 and 215-pound divisions. Elijah Shroyer pinned ...

Individuals with a North Carolina driver’s license or other N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles identification may submit a voter ...

NC scientists work to perfect the Fraser fir while fighting a tree-killing disease. Ashe County, NC is the nation’s largest producer of Christmas trees and the site of the Upper Mountain Research ...

Hurricane relief funds will go toward road repairs in Avery, Ashe, and Watauga counties, as well as to repair Lake Lure's marina.

One of the employees at a liver mush plant in the Charlotte region was shot in the chest on the job, according to investigators in North Carolina. The victim remains hospitalized at Spartanburg ...

An off-duty police officer died during a “security incident” at Cape Lejeune Marine Corps Base near Jacksonville, according to investigators in eastern North Carolina. It happened at 12:40 p.m., ...

The shooting happened on Jan. 13 at the Mack’s Liver Mush plant on Hopewell Road near Shelby, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release ...

The suspect has been identified as 52-year-old Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel of Hendersonville, and one of the deaths dates all the way back to 2007, the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan.

Mysterious explosions are being heard in Union County, North Carolina, and the sheriff’s office is looking for a source. The “booms” are rattling windows. Archivo del Miami Herald Mysterious ...

Jacksonville Police Department Officer Philip Chiorino died in a “security incident” at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Based, investigators say. Jacksonville Police Department photo An off-duty police ...