Highlands’ Independence Day Celebration offers a full day of family-friendly activities beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 4. The event is free and will take place at varying locations throughout ...

The Brotherhood concluded its journey on Saturday, June 27, riding 123 miles from Fairview, North Carolina to Charlotte and ending a week of challenging rides and meaningful interactions with the ...

A Center for the Visual Arts, will host its annual Community Day on Friday, July 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on its six-acre campus at 323 Franklin Road. The event is free and open to the public. Now in ...

The multi-million-dollar mixed-use development, which is being spearheaded by Orlando, Fla.-based hospitality company The Kessler Collection and designer Christian B. Sottile, would contain green ...

With spring temperatures taking hold, a common sight around Highlands is once again being reported. Bears have been seen as recently as Tuesday morning on Oak Street, with additional sightings ...

A possible threat of violence posted online led to an increased police presence at Highlands School on Monday. According to Highlands Police Department reports, someone shared screen capt ...

In a 4 to 1 vote, the town board decided to move forward with the amortization amendment to the current STR ordinance. While I advocated for a more cautious approach to reducing STRs in R1 and R2 by ...

Paxton Media Group (PMG) has acquired nine community newspapers in the Murphy and Franklin regions of western North Carolina and north Georgia from Community Newspapers, Inc. (CNI), based in Athens, ...

There are places where learning happens quietly—under the shade of hemlocks, along the edge of a bog, in the careful unfolding of a fern. At Highlands Biological Station, education is not confined to ...

The three high schools in Highlands and Cashiers will all be conference mates next fall after the final realignment proposal form the NC High School Athletic Association was approved last week.

Changes are coming to Jackson County Recreation in Cashiers as Buchanan and Sons recently won the bidding to construct the Jackson County Splash Pad, a new project developed by Equinox. The project ...

Looking forward to a Monday feels strange. Most weeks, those of us who log 40-hour weeks at any occupation do all we can to squeeze out as much weekend as possible before Monday rolls around. But on ...