Yancey County News

Mike McWilliams * MMcWilliams@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * updated August 27, 2008 6:36 am ASHEVILLE The search for a missing 28-year-old woman in the Pigeon River in Haywood County will resume at 9:00 a.m. Searchers ...

Lonzo Crews Jr., who was convicted of two brutal, execution-style murders in Madison County 30 years ago, may walk free as soon as next month, officials say.

The N.C. Board of Transportation awarded $113.7 million for road improvements in Buncombe, Madison, McDowell and Yancey counties.

News-Journal Publisher Mitchell County is under extreme drought conditions. This is according to the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council on the organizations website at www.ncdrought.org . Yancey ...

Asheville and environs are used to gathering national acclaim: America's favorite highway.

A photographer's greatest asset is her eyes, and photographer Jenny Bowen has an eye for images.

The state Board of Transportation approved Thursday a $107.9 million contract to widen 13.5 miles of U.S. 19 and U.S. 19-W between Interstate 26 near Mars Hill and Jack's Creek Road about two miles west of the ...

The first day of school is nearly three weeks away for most students in the Charlotte metro region, but it's back to the classroom today for children in two North Carolina mountain counties.

MARSHALL For some students, summer is nearly over. The first Western North Carolina students to head back to school are in Madison County, where school starts Wednesday.

Car shows are planned both this weekend and the next to benefit struggling WNC families.

A North Carolina man died Saturday when his bicycle slammed into a guard rail at a high speed.

A North Carolina man died Saturday when his bicycle slammed into a guard rail at a high speed.

A North Carolina man died Saturday when his bicycle slammed into a guard rail at a high speed.

This is the thick of craft fair season. Burnsville has one of the nicest outdoor ones of all, because the Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair is in the town square.

Carol Motsinger * CMotsinger@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * published July 13, 2008 11:06 am Adam Skivington Randolph.

Linda Barrett Knopp Lives: Yancey County Occupation: general manager at Malaprop's "Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring" - "It captures the beauty and the magic of the book." "The Big Lebowksi" - ...

RED HILL - N.C. 197 will be closed 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday just north of the Mitchell-Yancey county line between Bakersville and Burnsville, the state Department of Transportation says.

Cotton, a commodity that attracted a world market after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, required a great deal of hand labor, which drove the slave trade in the newly minted United States.

Foreclosure Fears Home foreclosure rates are skyrocketing across the country, and we're no exception here in the mountains.

Voter turnout today could reach a record low with only one statewide Democratic runoff on the ballot.