Switzerland Inn, an MMI Hotel Group property, announced today its official opening for the 2025 season. With an earlier start ...

Tweetsie Railroad is gearing up to welcome families back for another season of Wild West Family Fun. The park opens on April ...

Tracy Bell of Banner Elk wants to give back to her community after she won a $466,415 jackpot playing a digital instant game. “Everyone around here has been through a lot lately,” she said. “I want to ...

Another fun observance is upon us and it’s something we’ve celebrated for centuries, whether we know its origin, or not. St. Patrick's Day honors the memory of Ireland’s patron saint for which the day ...

Come out to the King Street Farmers Market to show appreciation for our local seniors! Our sponsors, Lifestore Bank, will be ...

Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, will open its gates to High Country residents, employees, college students and their guests ...

Asheville, N.C. - The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is welcoming a slate of community ambassadors to guide the next steps of its Blue Ridge Rising initiative. The group of leaders will help implement ...

Sixteen members of the High Country community have been selected as category finalists for the 9th-annual Boone Area Chamber ...

Each year Lees-McRae College holds Mountain Day of Service, an important annual tradition celebrated since the early days of the college in which students, faculty, and staff leave the classroom and ...

AppHealthCare, in collaboration with various agencies and community partners, has released the Community Health Assessment for Watauga County. This report highlights community-identified public health ...

In November 1978 Alex Hallmark sold the Springhaven Inn to Linda Rockwell High and Sydney Houston (Hugh) High (1941 – 2007). Hugh and Linda met while in school at Texas Christian University and ...

We’re heading toward Spring, but the month of March is always a game- player. A few days of sunshine, followed by thunder, lightning and rain, with snow, ice and ferocious winds close behind, is ...