Sylva News

Police and state arson investigators on Monday were trying to determine the cause of a retirement home fire that killed a 76-year-old Jackson County man.

One person died and another was injured in a fire at a retirement community in western North Carolina.

One person died and another was injured in an early morning fire at a retirement community in Sylva.

A Jackson County man faces felony charges after investigators say he shot and killed two dogs on a roadside.

Town elections are over, and voters in both Sylva and Dillsboro Tuesday returned former officials to their boards.

Love it or hate it, mountain vernacular architecture has stubbornly planted its roots in Western North Carolina and shows no signs of abandoning the area.

From the Sylva Herald: Residents of the county's four municipalities - Sylva, Dillsboro, Webster and Forest Hills - will decide who will govern their towns Tuesday .

Editor's note: This story appeared following the July 1, 1997 rock slide that shut down Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge for several months.

Two of the five seats on the Sylva town board are up for election. Both incumbents are running for re-election and will face three additional challengers.

Towns across Western North Carolina will hold elections for town board and mayor on Nov.

The election for Sylva town board next week will determine the philosophical direction for the town.

Champion Eye Center already had the eye care market cornered around Asheville, N.C., and now they have it totally surrounded with the addition of Dr.

An annual meteor shower delighted at least one Western North Carolina resident who caught a glimpse of it Tuesday night.

Smoky Mountain News reports : "The fate of an unfinished Clarion Inn in Sylva is up in the air after a bank foreclosed on the property earlier this month.

This November, the Town of Dillsboro will elect all five members of its town board, along with a new mayor to replace Jean Hartbarger, who is stepping down after eight years as mayor and eight years as alderwoman.

The fate of an unfinished Clarion Inn in Sylva is up in the air after a bank foreclosed on the property earlier this month.

A man found dead in a Haywood County jail cell warned in a phone text message he would overdose on morphine if he had to go back to jail, according to an autopsy report.

East Carolina University has named three sites for dental clinics as part of a plan to increase access to dental care for North Carolinians.

There's a lot going on in town. Here's some of it: Turkeys flying in: I heard that Earth Fare, known for selling awesome, fresh, organic, delicious turkeys - has 600 on order.

Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, has testified he regularly saw Smith take prescription drugs such as methadone and spotted bottles of valium and other narcotics in her home.