Enka junior Averi Coggins leads the All-WNC softball teams for the 2025 NCHSAA season. See the complete All-WNC teams here.

Western North Carolina high school football season, you get to choose the preseason running back of the year. Vote in our ...

Rows of nostalgic, low-slung motor lodges rest on the aprons of towering mountains. A population just double that of the LSU ...

Some people hear that Great Smoky Mountains is America’s most-visited national park and think it’s a reason to stay away. The ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the border along North Carolina and Tennessee, and troopers say the woman was on the Tennessee side of the park, “13 miles in on the trail near the ...

The park lists Saturday, May 24, Sunday, May 25 and Monday, May 26 as "Red Diamond Days," when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will likely have "heavily congested roadways and completely full ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced Friday that the Cosby Area of the park has reopened to visitors after the completion of some infrastructure work.

The synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park put on ... in Tennessee and Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in North Carolina are also alternative areas suggested by Hipcamp.

Stop! Don't touch that plant! There are lots of gorgeous varieties of plants nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains for nature lovers to admire and enjoy. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. (WATE) — Bagpipes, kilts, and battle-axes will return to Townsend May 17 and 18 for the 43rd Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival & Games. The annual festival will be held from 8 a.m ...