Nine Polk County football players will play college football next season after signing with a college on Wednesday.

Polk County girls basketball is on the verge of its first conference title since 2005. Here is how chemistry has helped the ...

Sunday is Groundhog Day and the question of 6 more weeks of winter or an early spring was answered across the country ...

SALUDA, N.C. (WSPA) – The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will temporarily close one lane of Interstate 26 West in Polk County starting on Monday.

A former Henderson County Sheriff’s Deputy was sentenced to three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to shooting a man in the arm while off-duty in 2024.

A Henderson County woman will spend up to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in a reported ...

FEMA applications are being received daily from survivors who sustained losses because of Tropical Storm Helene, but time is running out to register. FEMA representatives say more than 361 million ...

Polk County Middle School’s band program is celebrating unprecedented success, with a record number of students selected for ...

Small businesses in Western North Carolina that were affected by Hurricane Helene can now apply for up to $50,000 in grants.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has asked state legislators to double their spending to date on Hurricane Helene recovery and ...

It has been a busy last several days for IMG Academy as they opened up its national head coaching position after the resignation of former head coach Billy Miller, who is rumored to be heading to ...

Welcome to the governor edition of our Under the Dome politics newsletter. I’m Dawn Vaughan, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein expanded a Helene recovery ...