During the protracted miners’ strike in West Virginia’s Cabin Creek and Paint Creek region in 1913, a company storekeeper and ...

The 41st annual Grassy Creek Mineral and Gem Show, which runs through Aug. 3, highlights Spruce Pine’s role as a mining hub. ...

A resident of the Beech Creek development near Bakersville spoke to the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners last week, seeking help with bridge repair and debris collection. “I’m s ...

The Grassy Creek Mineral and Gem Show will run July 27 to Aug. 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day on the hill above Skyview ...

Mountain Community Health Partnership held a groundbreaking Friday for its new development on a 105-acre lot in Grassy Creek.

The Mitchell County Board of Commissioner re-appointed several county officials in its first meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal year recently. The commissioners also discussed a number of issu ...

Police Spruce Pine Chief of Police Kasey Cook ...

It began toward the end of the coronavirus pandemic: A rally of food trucks began gathering on Oak Avenue in downtown Spruce ...

A Texas man was arrested in Avery County on July 7 after allegedly leading law-enforcement officers on a three-county chase that began in Burnsville.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed mine in the Poplar/Green Mountain area on July 29 at 6 p.m.