Spruce Pine News

Spruce Pine's mayor wants to become the next state senator for the 47th District.

Legislators declined this summer to clear the way for North Carolina to tap the power of mountain winds.

Mayland Community College recently hosted a retirement celebration to honor Louise Buchanan Hembree.

After more than three years of rallies attracting up to 2,000 young people a night in locations throughout Western North Carolina, the Ignite Christian youth event is coming to Asheville in 2010.

Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, has testified he regularly saw Smith take prescription drugs such as methadone and spotted bottles of valium and other narcotics in her home.

The fourth annual WNC Cinderella Pageant will be held at Harris Middle School in Spruce Pine on Saturday.

Spruce Pine can open a liquor store after the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission signed off today on the store's location.

Mission Health System based in Asheville, North Carolina has retained Witt/Kieffer to assist in the recruitment efforts for a Chief Executive Officer of its affiliate Mission Medical Associates.

The first frost of the season is possible tonight and Thursday morning in some Western North Carolina mountain regions, according to the National Weather Service.

HIGH POINT a ' Case goods producer Mayland Court will show for the first time in High Point in October.

The deputy secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety is now head of North Carolina's alcoholic beverage regulatory board.

Hundreds of alcohol-violation cases and three North Carolina communities who want to open a tax-generating liquor store are in bureaucratic limbo.

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Rangers were forced to reclose the Craggy Gardens Picnic Area on the Blue Ridge Parkway Saturday after a bear returned to forage for food.

Three North Carolina localities are ready to build, set up or relocate a liquor store and get their alcohol revenue flowing.

Route 19, formerly the major Chicago-to-Florida thoroughfare, passes through Spruce Pine, where author Gloria Houston's father, James Myron Houston, had built a gas station and store in 1937.

This Labor Day, folks can again enjoy the sounds of jazz and country music at the Marion Depot.

Lighten Up 4 Life isn't just for Buncombe County residents anymore. Mission Hospital officially kicked off the latest installation of its weight-loss challenge this morning at Emma Elementary School as other hospitals around the region launched their own competitions.

OnTrack has expanded reverse mortgage counseling for seniors in five new locations, Bryson City, Murphy, Spruce Pine, Burnsville, and Boone in addition to OnTrack's eight current locations.

Every two years, state Sen. Joe Sam Queen finds himself in one of the General Assembly's most contentious and expensive races.