Shelli Stanback News Today

Emeritus Society announces spring courses

Beaverdam Creek is easy to miss. Tree-lined banks shield the small, shallow stream from view as it runs toward the Pigeon River in Canton, and until t...

In 2015, not a single acre of conserved land dotted the landscape between the Blue Ridge Parkway surrounding Soco Gap and the town of Maggie Valley be...

MORGANTON — On November 4, Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina acquired 93 acres along one-and-a-half miles of Wilson Creek, a nationally-designated Wild and Scenic River in Caldwell County, from Duke

As Earth Day bloomed under one of spring’s sunniest skies yet, more than 150 people gathered on a concrete bridge spanning Hominy Creek just outside C...

A developer hoping to build almost 1,400 units in a new mixed-use development in Woodfin will have to wait to find out if he can exceed the towns normal 35-foot building height. The Woodfin Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustment considered the conditional use permit at its regular meeting March 1, continuing past 10:30 p.m. before voting to continue the meeting.  After hearing from witnesses, the local fire chief and lawyers on both sides of the proposal, the board was left weighing exactly...