As the Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen called its monthly meeting to order, it was the last item on the list that had town hall overflowing — a call for a hearing to consider the mayor’s alleged misconduct.

A proposal to charge youth sports clubs and outside groups rental fees to use school property is being studied by the Haywood County School Board.

Waynesville police discovered a homemade pipe bomb in the bed of a pickup truck in the early hours of the morning Sunday.

Despite a statewide ban on video sweepstakes machines, the video gambling industry is taking advantage of yet another apparent loophole to introduce the machines back into Western North Carolina, apparently emboldened after local district court judges have dismissed a series of criminal charges against defiant sweepstakes operators.

A group of veterans in Haywood County lodged a formal complaint claiming that the hiring process of the county’s veterans service officer was discriminatory.

There’s only one feasible option for what to do with the abandon Haywood Department of Social Services building: turn it into apartments.

Maintaining high-quality doctors in Haywood County emerged as a common theme in a public hearing last week on the future of MedWest-Haywood.

Raising children is rewarding, but stay-at-home moms and dads need something for themselves.

Whether you live in Macon County or Jackson County may depend on which one you ask.

The town of Canton is not out of the woods yet in its fight to keep Camp Hope, a public recreation area in Cruso.