Tuckasegee News

Two N.C. men were sentenced to federal prison Monday after pleading guilty to charges of attempting to transport, buy or sell an American black bear in Haywood County, authorities said.

A malfunction in the town's sewer system sent 300,000 gallons of raw sewage into the Tuckasegee River, officials said Friday.

I am waiting patiently for all those folks who screamed about the president's address to the nation's schoolchildren to come forward and say 'Gee, I was wrong.' Anyone want to bet how long I will have to wait? Chris Behre, Tuckasegee After watching President Obama's 17-minute talk encouraging schoolchildren to work hard and take responsibility for ...

Who would think that a titanic controversy could float along the Tuckasegee River in the Western North Carolina mountains? And of all places, in the hamlet of Dillsboro, population 208.

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.