News Staff The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation (HCHF) and Nantahala Health Foundation (NHF) have awarded seven Western North Carolina organizations grant funds from their Healthy Homes Initiative. The 2023 Healthy Homes Initiative is supported by a $400,000 grant from Dogwood Health Trust to address the need for home repairs in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain … Read more
Haywood Count — The Haywood County Board of Commissioners once again discussed accepting grant money during a meeting on Monday. Last month it was put on hold because of worries from certain community members. this week, the Board unanimously voted to approve the grant money. The state gave Haywood County a grant of about $75,000 … Read more
CHEROKEE, N.C. (WLOS) – A legally embattled Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council member has stepped down. Wolftown and Big Y communities representative Bo Crowe submitted his resignation citing personal and family issues. Crowe faces charges of assault by strangulation, aggravated reckless endangerment and assault inflicting serious bodily injury for a Jan. 6 incident … Read more
The Asheville Police Department Bomb Squad paid a third visit to a site in Barnardsville after the property owner made another dangerous discovery. Property owner Cindy Wilson found more decaying dynamite Tuesday. She also found old dynamite Monday and over the weekend while cleaning out a barn inherited from her uncle. The bomb squad detonated … Read more
MACON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) – UPDATE: The third suspect wanted in connection to a burglary last week is now in the custody of Macon County Sheriff’s Officials. An investigation into a car theft in the mountains on Feb. 3 led to the arrest of two people, and authorities say, the third suspect, identified as Marcus … Read more
SYLVA, N.C. (WLOS) – Reports that a student had a weapon on a Jackson County school bus had police on high alert. Jackson County Public Schools said in a Facebook post Monday afternoon [Feb. 6], that Smoky Mountain High School and Fairview School administrators received a report that a student on Bus 33 had a … Read more
BARNARDSVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) – The Asheville Police Department Bomb Squad responded to the Barnardsville community late Saturday evening after someone cleaning out a barn found what was believed to be decaying dynamite. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad confirmed the suspicious materials to be nitroglycerin dynamite, which they said will leak out in … Read more
HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) – Tuscola High School principal Heather Blackmon announced her resignation Monday. The decision to step down comes more than seven weeks after she was suspended with pay in 2022, along with Tuscola head football coach Chris Brookshire. He also resigned following an investigation regarding complaints about inappropriate and unprofessional comments toward … Read more
Some Swain County residents are feeling like Great Smoky Mountains National Park has broken their promise, as they prepare to implement a parking fee. Several citizens spoke out against the fee Tuesday at a meeting with commissioners, reminding park officials that residents in the area saw their land taken by public domain for both Fontana … Read more
JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) – A Georgia man charged in connection to a 2021 drug trafficking case in Western North Carolina was sentenced recently to priosn time followed by 5 years probation. According to court documents, 34-year-old Brandon Todd O’Dell is accused of being part of a drug trafficking operation that sold meth in … Read more