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 ...

Carolina Brotherhood, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit made up of emergency responders and their families from North and South Carolina, cycles across the Carolinas each year on a different route to meet the ...

The Bascom: 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 ...

The Village Green of Cashiers is a 13.2-acre park located in the heart of Cashiers, serving as a central community space for everyday activities, festivals and events. For more than 30 years, the park ...

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts will open a new exhibition by photography resident Dean Kessmann on Saturday, April 18, in the Joel Gallery. A free public artist talk is scheduled for 3 p.m.

Following a month-long closure, hatchery-supported trout waters reopened across Western North Carolina at 7 a.m. on Saturday, April 4, drawing anglers back to locations like the Nantahala River in ...

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 Cashiers Historical Society has launched “Campfires & the Embers of Youth: The History of Summer Camps in Western North Carolina,” a digital exhibition that opened in March 2026. This immersive ...

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, ...

The Town of Highlands Board of Commissioners met for its monthly Workshop on March 19 to discuss the noise ordinance and parking regulations aimed at preventing traffic obstruction, before holding its ...

For the Highlands Performing Arts Center (PAC), a new and frustrating challenge has emerged: Third-party ticket resellers are targeting patrons, inflating prices and breaking the trust the community ...

The Town of Highlands agreed to improve the Highlands Transfer Station, in exchange for a place to keep its extra dirt. According to County Manager Warren Cabe, the Town of Highlands approached the ...