Mars Hill News

Public universities made nearly 700 permanent hires without competitive searches from 2007 to this fall, waiving about 7 percent of all searches, the University of North Carolina says.

Photographing the right of way for Interstate 26 in Madison County during its preconstruction phase, Rob Amberg saw how mythological his personal subjects were.

Local residents know, but anyone heading out on N.C. 112 should know that there may be delays while crews replace a bridge over Hominy Creek.

When she first considered holding a raffle to raise funds for programs at First Stage Youth Theatre, Mary Colvin knew she'd need something unique as the prize.

People who own vacation homes in the Wolf Laurel area should check their properties to make sure their furnishings haven't been stolen, a Madison County detective says.

Students at a North Carolina college were so inspired by the author of a summer reading assignment they launched a campaign to help refugees in war-torn Darfur.

Causes like helping refugees in Darfur are easy to support in theory and just as easy to forget if there is no practical way to make a difference.

A pair of tractor-trailer crashes snarled traffic in Madison and Buncombe counties Friday afternoon along a heavily traveled highway already burdened with traffic diverted from Interstate 40.

Two lanes of Interstate 26 east were blocked between Mars Hill and Wolf Laurel, after two tractor trailers collided this afternoon.

Coming off the bitterly contested issue of incorporation, Swannanoa residents put their differences aside and came together Tuesday to help the community move forward.

Mars Hill College has awarded grants to 12 students and faculty members for research projects ranging from mountain history to pop music.

Four defendants in the gang-style invasion of a Mars Hill College housing unit were sentenced to prison last week after the last one entered a guilty plea.

A Mars Hill woman is now an inmate at The North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh after being sentenced to up to 10 years for statutory rape.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. North Davidson has one of the state's elite softball programs and has sent numerous players to the college level.

The University of North Carolina system is asking its campuses how often they hire employees without conducting searches or advertising job openings.

The grave of Joe Anderson, one of the slaves of Mars Hill College co-founder Rev.

Cloud Cottage celebrates 10 years The public is invited to a tea party and open house 2-6 p.m. Nov.

When photojournalist Rob Amberg began work on his latest book, The New Road , he admits that he was "pretty decidedly against" the nine-mile section of I-26 that recently paved a swath through rural Madison County.

Larry Leake doesn't miss much, as he reminded his friend Mike Easley this week. The former governor was testifying under oath about his campaign activity in front of the state Board of Elections, which Leake chairs.

Some Madison County businesses are reaping benefits from the massive rock slide blocking Interstate 40 Haywood County.