Madison County News

Honley "Bun" Etherton likes to tell a story about the time a few years ago when he and his wife, Alma, bought prepaid funeral packages.

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

They're relentless forces, and they extracted a harsh toll on two local farms this year.

College may very well be intellectually enthralling and socially beguiling, but all that excitement calls for small sacrifices.

An officer from the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency went undercover for the Madison County Sheriff's Department to make drug and gun buys, Sheriff Buddy Harwood said.

Senate Democrats today unanimously chose Martin Nesbitt as Senate majority leader, picking an experienced legislator from Asheville to lead them into their most important election in a decade.

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.

The major provider of mental-health services in three mountain counties has closed down its operations in the area.

A man who escaped from the Madison County Jail last week has been captured, Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood said Friday morning.

A Madison County road was blocked by a rockslide late Wednesday morning as heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida saturated the area.

Author Mark Pinsky, who has spent years researching the June 17, 1970, Madison County murder of VISTA worker Nancy Morgan, will be in Marshall this week to talk about that upcoming book and his other works.

Asheville Citizen-Times reports: Buncombe County commissioners decided Tuesday not to appeal a court ruling requiring the county to allow construction of a concrete plant in the Flat Creek community that has been the subject of neighborhood protests.

Those who were around decades ago when the path for Interstate 40 was first carved through the Pigeon River Gorge said they knew then that problems would be coming.

A manhunt is underway for a federal prisoner who escaped from the Madison County jail.

Interstate 40 should never have been built through the Pigeon River Gorge. NCDOT engineers knew the rock formations there were unstable and recommended building the interstate along the route of US 70 through Madison County.

A western North Carolina man is accused of having sex with a child. Madison County deputies said that 22-year-old Trevor Shuler, of Marshall, has been charged with multiple crimes, including first-degree rape of a child.

Crews this week hope to begin drilling rocks at the top of a massive rockslide on Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line after rain delayed their progress over the weekend.

An engineer involved in building Interstate 40 through a portion of western North Carolina said more than 40 years ago that workers had problems finishing the project because of rock slides.

Some Madison County businesses are reaping benefits from the massive rock slide blocking Interstate 40 Haywood County.

A Barnard man has been arrested and charged with raping a 9-year-old, officials say.