Tuckasegee News

According to Duke Power and the so-called 'stakeholders,' the citizens of Jackson County and the town of Franklin are environmental savages.

The terms of Duke Energy's counter-offer to Jackson County and the town of Franklin in exchange for dropping their opposition to Dillsboro dam removal have been made public.

Water and wastewater projects in Western North Carolina will receive a $13.9 million boost from the federal stimulus.

A Tuckasegee man wanted on kidnapping and other charges was found and arrested early this morning in Whittier.

Jackson County commissioners got their first look last week at a master plan for a Dillsboro river park - a plan that prominently features the controversial dam - on the same night they spent nearly three hours in closed session discussing their legal fight with Duke Power over the fate of the dam.

While the bulk of Cullowhee and Western Carolina University escaped winter weather last week, a northwest flow of cold air on Wednesday, Jan.

American singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died at the age of 81. She had been suffering from colon cancer.

Thomas Rain Crowe, of Tuckasegee, keeps dipping into his life experience, which has been rich and varied, to come up with new books.