To deal with a gaping budget shortfall, Macon County Schools might raid the local salary bonus it historically awards its teachers. 

The Macon County planning board signaled its intent this month to loosen rules on development in floodplains. 

Macon County could once again find itself with a bigger airport runway — this time wider. 

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.

“Ever since I was kid, I would take home all kinds of stuff, all kinds of random, weird junk, and my parents hated it,” David Culpepper chuckled. “They thought I was crazy, but when you find something rusty and interesting, you bring it home, and I did.”

Macon County has it sights set on building a new soccer field in Highlands, one of the few mountain communities where the sport is king of the fall season, not football.

Ronan MacGregor didn’t know where he came from.

He knew he was of Scottish decent, but that was about it. It wasn’t until he moved to Macon County several years ago and wandered into the Scottish Tartans Museum in downtown Franklin that he began digging into his family’s past.

Nearly two months after a majority of Macon County commissioners approved a slew of salary raises for all county employees, the nitty-gritty details of the pay hikes have been released.

Macon County Schools may be in store for some noticeable changes come the start of school this fall.

Macon County is weighing whether to relax its existing rules that ban fill dirt in the flood plain.

The county’s planning board is split on the issue and struggling to find mutual ground to stand on.

Who has the lowest tax rate in the state — Macon County or Jackson County? The answer is both, it just depends on who you ask.