WEST JEFFERSON — Ashe County Schools honored longtime Board of Education member Polly Jones during a special reception held Nov. 2, celebrating her years of dedicated service to public education ...

The cotton handkerchief made for the then-Princess Elizabeth in the late 1940s is expected to fetch up to $670.

It's a British folk tradition where local residents run through the crowded streets carrying full-sized, blazing wooden ...

Beavers have been released into the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland — 500 years after they were hunted to extinction there.

WEST JEFFERSON — Wordkeepers is a safe space for writers of all experience levels to share their work. Writers get five ...

Sheriff B. Phil Howell announces the arrest of 61-year-old Frederick Adam Cooper of Fleetwood, following a traffic stop for ...

The curious critter was discovered with a nasty injury after getting a little too adventurous during an ill-advised fishing ...

A pet budgie that vanished when a storm blew open a kitchen window was found hiding in a drain a mile from home. 11-month-old ...

Appalachian State University’s Office of Rural Promise (ORP) is the awardee of a seven-year, $35 million GEAR UP (Gaining ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that residents near a noisy data center in West Jordan, Utah, struggle with constant hum and ...

Laurel Rumph is a financier turned Ashe County photographer whose work spotlights the county and surrounding area — and she's ...

Archaeologists found hundreds of cannabis seeds in an ancient Siberian tomb belonging to high-ranking members of a society in ...