Mars Hill News

The N.C. Highway Patrol is investigating a traffic accident this morning on Interstate 26 in Madison County.

MARS HILL, N.C. Authorities say a man has died after his all-terrain vehicle overturned early Christmas morning on a road in the North Carolina mountains.

Madison County officials are seeking a state disaster declaration in wake of the crippling snow storm that downed thousands of trees and left many residents without power for days.

Tips To Beat Old Man Winter by Boyd Kidwell When winter winds howl through the Smokey Mountains, Angus breeder David Freeman of Mars Hill, N.C., appreciates his versatile winter feed structure.

In its first year as a scholarship program, Mars Hill College Cycling claimed its first podium at a national championship and was ranked as the third cyclocross men's team in the nation.

Sunday was no day of rest for many Western North Carolina residents digging out from the great snow of December 2009.

The French Broad Electrical Membership Corporation reports that about 3,500 customers remain without power as of this afternoon.

Public universities made nearly 700 permanent hires without competitive searches from 2007 to this fall, waiving about 7 percent of all searches, the University of North Carolina says.

Photographing the right of way for Interstate 26 in Madison County during its preconstruction phase, Rob Amberg saw how mythological his personal subjects were.

Local residents know, but anyone heading out on N.C. 112 should know that there may be delays while crews replace a bridge over Hominy Creek.

When she first considered holding a raffle to raise funds for programs at First Stage Youth Theatre, Mary Colvin knew she'd need something unique as the prize.

People who own vacation homes in the Wolf Laurel area should check their properties to make sure their furnishings haven't been stolen, a Madison County detective says.

Students at a North Carolina college were so inspired by the author of a summer reading assignment they launched a campaign to help refugees in war-torn Darfur.

Causes like helping refugees in Darfur are easy to support in theory and just as easy to forget if there is no practical way to make a difference.

A pair of tractor-trailer crashes snarled traffic in Madison and Buncombe counties Friday afternoon along a heavily traveled highway already burdened with traffic diverted from Interstate 40.

Two lanes of Interstate 26 east were blocked between Mars Hill and Wolf Laurel, after two tractor trailers collided this afternoon.

Coming off the bitterly contested issue of incorporation, Swannanoa residents put their differences aside and came together Tuesday to help the community move forward.

Mars Hill College has awarded grants to 12 students and faculty members for research projects ranging from mountain history to pop music.

Four defendants in the gang-style invasion of a Mars Hill College housing unit were sentenced to prison last week after the last one entered a guilty plea.

A Mars Hill woman is now an inmate at The North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh after being sentenced to up to 10 years for statutory rape.