Highlands News

Board members from both Smoky Mountain Center and Western Highlands Network used the phrase "smooth transition" throughout a meeting held earlier this afternoon - an indication that both entities want another two-word expression from the same assemblage to come true at Western Highland's meeting tomorrow morning: "seamless process." To do this, ... (more)

Conventional wisdom says homeowners should pay off their home loans before retirement.

The rain expected could create flooding in some areas of the southern mountains, including Henderson and Transylvania counties and the Cashiers and Highlands areas in southern Jackson and eastern Macon counties, said meteorologist Jeffrey Taylor.

Almost all of the 19th-century travel writers visited Whiteside Mountain. It was -- and is -- dramatic.

With time running out before Western Highlands Network's Medicaid contract expires July 31, the board unanimously voted to take the first necessary steps to pursue a merger with Smoky Mountain Center, another managed care organization.