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Smith-McDowell House Museum will host an Easter Egg Hunt from 10:30 a.m.-noon on March 27 on the grounds of the home, a restored circa 1840 mansion.

CHEROKEE, NC a ' Harraha TMs CherokeeA CasinoA & HotelA honored its top performersA at a special banquetA Wednesday,A presentingA the 2009 Yonah of the YearA A Award and 2010A A Property Chairmana TMs AwardA toA 10 area employees from Cherokee, Sylva, Cullowhee, Bryson City, Waynesville and Lake Junaluska.

Swain County has entered the fight over Duke Energy's proposed electrical substation that would mar views in a rural farming valley near a highly sacred Cherokee site.

Steve Bryant was fresh out of law school and just learning his way around the courtroom when the judge hearing his case one day threatened to throw him in jail.

Some of what I've picked up lately about the Asheville and Western North Carolina craft beer scene: Beer City Brew Fest: So we have the date, but still no word on where it will be held, or where and when we can buy tickets.

Despite Graham County pledging to end all emergency services to Deal's Gap starting Jan.

There's at least nine and possibly 10 candidates running for the three seats. Two of three seats are being vacated by retiring judges.

Events , Hayesville , Murphy - By admin on February 23, 2010 at 12:38 pm Bryson City: Attorney General Roy Cooper will speak to sheriffs from western North Carolina on Wednesday, February 17 around 12:00 noon in Bryson City.

For the first time in the past couple of months, the weekend is arriving without the risk of a snowfall in Asheville.

Prescription drug abuse is a popular trend among young people. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 That is one of the issues state Attorney General Roy Cooper will discuss with sheriffs from all over Western North Carolina Wednesday in Bryson City.

In rare good news for Swain County's jail, a new agreement will soon usher federal prisoners into the often half-empty facility.

The Friends of the Marianna Black Library will host the third annual Chocolate Cook-Off from 2-4 p.m. Feb.

Published: Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 12:36 a.m. How many of you know the first song played on MTV when it launched Aug.

Swain County workshop promotes environmental networking The first Swain Green Networking and Planning Workshop will meet Thursday in Bryson City to look at the threats and challenges to the western region's landscape and to explore opportunities to clean up litter, monitor and protect streams such as Alarka Creek and the Nantahala River.

The story of the highest-ranking Mason in Asheville history - attorney Thomas Joshua Harkins, sovereign grand commander of the Southern Jurisdiction in the 1950s - came to light recently because of an interest in his library, enshrined for perpetuity in Asheville's Masonic Temple.

A decades-long dispute is expected to come to an end Saturday when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar travels to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to sign off on a monetary settlement over the "Road to Nowhere" saga.

The long-standing saga over the North Shore Road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is expected to end this morning with a vote of the Swain County, N.C., Board of Commissioners.

The federal government has agreed to pay a $52 million settlement so it will not have to complete the so-called "road-to-nowhere" through North Carolina's mountain wilderness, officials said Tuesday, ending a dispute that began during World War II.The payments destined for Swain County will be a boon for the area: The settlement is four times the ...

The federal government's offer fully meets to amount requested by Swain County leaders and suggested in the Department of Interior's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the North Shore Road.

More than 23,000 customers remain without power after a storm dumped more than a half of foot of snow across Western North Carolina overnight.