Highlands’ Independence Day Celebration offers a full day of family-friendly activities beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 4. The event is free and will take place at varying locations throughout ...

Carolina Brotherhood, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit made up of emergency responders and their families from North and South Carolina, cycles across the Carolinas each year on a different route to meet the ...

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, will host its annual Community Day on Friday, July 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on its six-acre campus at 323 Franklin Road. The event is free and open to the ...

A possible threat of violence posted online led to an increased police presence at Highlands School on Monday. According to Highlands Police Department reports, someone shared screen captures of ...

A standing room only crowd gathered outside the Cashiers Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday morning for the grand opening of phase one of the Cashiers Greenway Ramble. The Thomas Taulbee Memorial ...

It’s a day that’s easy to remember, and too important to forget. “President Eisenhower got it right,” American Legion Post 370 Chaplain Ed McCloskey said. “When he declared Veteran’s Day a holiday, he ...

The MANNA Food Bank’s Asheville headquarters is flooded and out of operation for the time being after the devastation from Hurricane Helene last week. In Highlands, that means the Highlands Emergency ...

There are places where learning happens quietly—under the shade of hemlocks, along the edge of a bog, in the careful unfolding of a fern. At Highlands Biological Station, education is not confined to ...

In front of a packed house inside the Martin Lipscomb Theatre the Highlands Cashiers Players raised the curtain on their 30th season with a production of “The Outsider.” Director Michael Lanzilotta ...

After a successful four-year run, the Bear Shadow music festival has been canceled for 2025. While the event, which has been held in the spring each year since 2021, is halted for this year the story ...

Mountain Construction Engineering celebrated the opening of its second office in Lake Toxaway this week with a ribbon cutting ceremony. However, as the company continues to expand across Western North ...

Paxton Media Group (PMG) has acquired nine community newspapers in the Murphy and Franklin regions of western North Carolina and north Georgia from Community Newspapers, Inc. (CNI), based in Athens, ...