Sarah Atkins seatkins05@gmail.com “Our wildlife and communities are not for sale,” said Jeanne Miraglia at a public hear ...

During the protracted miners’ strike in West Virginia’s Cabin Creek and Paint Creek region in 1913, a company storekeeper and ...

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. “I’m s ...

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 ...

The 41st annual Grassy Creek Mineral and Gem Show, which runs through Aug. 3, highlights Spruce Pine’s role as a mining hub. The week-long event lures gem and mineral traders from acros... Premium ...

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 ...

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It began toward the end of the coronavirus pandemic: A rally of food trucks began gathering on Oak Avenue in downtown Spruce Pine, which provided a chance for people to meet and eat together in the ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed mine in the Poplar/Green Mountain area on July 29 at 6 p.m.

A Texas man was arrested in Avery County on July 7 after allegedly leading law-enforcement officers on a three-county chase that began in Burnsville.

At a special called “fiscal” year-end meeting last week, the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners focused mainly on disaster recovery issues: Fire danger caused by the trees knocked down by H ...