Western North Carolina

A tribal-owned medical marijuana dispensary in western North Carolina is also now selling products for adult recreational use.

Conservation groups are suing the Forest Service over allegedly using misleading data to justify large logging projects in the Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest. Two other recently filed lawsuits take issue with proposed projects.

The North Carolina roadside history marker commemorates the Cowee Tunnel disaster near Dillsboro, an 1882 construction accident that killed 19 Black inmate workers.

Camp Crinkleroot is a free weekend day-camp for children ages 8 to 14 with autism and similar disorders.

Many Hmong refugees settled in western North Carolina in the decades following the Vietnam War. Now that they’re getting older and are dealing with more health issues, they’ve become more reliant on their adult children to serve as interpreters in healthcare settings, which can be challenging given major differences between the English and Hmong languages.

The Biden administration’s effort to remove an estimated 9.2 million lead pipes from the nation’s public and private water systems has begun. The first step in that process is a mandated service line inventory due later this year. But for local governments across North Carolina, it’s unclear where the money to cover the full cost of the inventory will come from.

Former North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn faced a candidate challenge similar to cases seeking to block Donald Trump from ballots in 2024.

Cline Church Nursery in Fleetwood has been selected to offer a Christmas Tree to the White House.

As the job grows more complex — and schools become more central to the culture wars — superintendent turnover is becoming more problematic in North Carolina. Tracy Grit in McDowell County Schools is one of 30 new superintendents learning the ropes this year.

It comes two weeks after its factories in Western North Carolina abruptly closed, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs.