After awarding grants to over 160 businesses in its previous funding rounds, the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation has reopened applications for its Hope for the High Country: Hurricane Helene ...

On Thursday, Feb. 27, the UNC System Board of Governors will elect Appalachian State University’s next chancellor during its meeting, which begins at 10 a.m. and is livestreamed by PBS North Carolina ...

A Lenoir, N.C. man was sentenced today to a total of 169 months in prison and a lifetime term of supervised release for possession and access with intent to view child sexual abuse material (CSAM) ...

Beech Mountain Resort Hosts 2025 Runs for Buns Fundraiser to Support Colon Cancer Coalition ...

BOONE, NC – In an ongoing effort to track real-time conditions for local businesses as recovery from the impacts of Hurricane ...

High Country Crime Stoppers and the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office seek the public’s assistance in locating a missing person: On Thursday, February 14, 2025, thirty-five-year-old James Lynn Keller ...

Appalachian State University Office of General Counsel Attorney Crawford H. Cleveland III has been elected to the North Carolina State Bar Council by the attorneys of the 35th Judicial District Bar.

A contractor for the N.C. Department of Transportation is scheduled to remove large boulders from beside N.C. 105 on Monday and Tuesday leading to longer wait times for debris clearing. Crews from ...

[Boone, NC] — WAMY Community Action is inviting residents of Watauga, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties to share their voice through the 2025 Community Needs Assessment Survey. Conducted every ...

Brock Long ’97 ’99, executive chairman of Hagerty Consulting and former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA, 2017-2019). Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation ...

Governor Josh Stein invites North Carolinians to participate in the development of an Action Plan to address unmet housing and economic revitalization hurricane recovery needs in western North ...

On Monday, February 17, 2025, the Avery County Sheriff's Office was notified of two missing individuals. The two were reported missing by family members and were entered as missing into a national ...