About three dozen people showed up Thursday evening at Hayesville’s Historic Courthouse Beal Center to learn more about the Roadless Rule and voice their input. At issue was the U.S. Forest Servi ...

Hayesville whipped Swain County, 10-0, Monday to set the stage for a doozy of a finish in the race for the Smoky Mountain Conference baseball crown. The high-flying Yellow Jackets pushed their SMC ...

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

Hayesville’s track and field teams did more than hold their own in a 15-school meet track meet at Swain County High School last Tuesday. Several Yellow Jackets distinguished themselves in individ ...

Murphy native Braden Rumfelt advanced to the top seven after some tense moments as he was announced as the seventh finalist during the live voting results on Monday night’s “Disneyland” episode of ...

Authorities have identified the couple who were killed in a plane crash two weeks ago. Dwaine Leon Thompson, 63, and his wife Bobbie Lane Thompson, 57, of Humble, Texas, perished when the ...

The Hayesville girls soccer team broke into the win column by avenging a season-opening loss to Blue Ridge Early College last Monday. The Lady Yellow Jackets held the upper foot this time, as junio ...

By Gary Corsair Sports Editor The high school softball season is young, but Hayesville has already matched last season’s win total of one. The inexperienced Lady Jackets have improved quickly and more ...

By Marcia Barnes Staff Writer TVA has created an interactive inundation map that shows approximately where flooding would occur in the very unlikely event of a ...

Staff Reports A coordinated, months-long investigation conducted by the Clay County Investigative Unit, Cherokee County Narcotics Unit and the State Bureau of Investigation has resulted in a signi ...

By Becky Long Publisher Becky Long • Clay County Progress County commissioners on Jan. 8 enacted an ordinance to prohibit commercial data centers from operating in Clay County which was supported by ...

By Kristopher Squibb Guest Writer By Kristopher Squibb Guest Writer Elf School was built in 1928 burned down in 1937 and then was rebuilt in 1941 and was a school until 1968. ...