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The state legislature passed legislation appropriating $20 million to NCDEQ to develop a statewide flood resiliency blueprint. Here is how it will be spent.

NC DEQ Secretary Elizabeth Biser said Tuesday the tool is the start of “the largest statewide flood mitigation effort in the country.”

The Town of Canton has been through some difficult budget discussions in the past, but this year’s effort, the first to reckon with the full impact of...

In an unprecedented series of events, two states have successfully attempted to ban former President Donald Trump from their primary ballots.

When Pactiv Evergreen announced it would close its 115-year-old paper mill in Canton earlier this year, local leaders had to deal with a host of issue...

Sometimes there are awards that call for two winners, like back in the day before the College Football Playoffs system when two schools would sometime...

After county commissioners considered signing a resolution in support of transitioning the Macon County Board of Education to a partisan-elected body,...

Land of Sky Regional Council’s Annual Awards were conferred during the December Board of Delegates Meeting on Nov. 29. The Robert G. Parrish, Sr. Intergovernmental Relations Award, The Charles H.

After contentious debate over the decision to make the Macon County Board of Education partisan-elected, county commissioners tabled the issue to get...

Last week, a fence was installed under the Russ Avenue bridge in Waynesville to deter homeless encampments.