Burke (left and standing), presides over the Senate Committee on Elections while it considers legislation to redraw the state ...

The Banner Elk Police Department is proud to announce the addition of a new K-9 officer to its ranks. The department’s newest ...

Avery Lady Vikings Varsity Volleyball capped off its regular season on a high note with a three-set sweep of rival Mitchell ...

Former FBI director James Comey asked a federal court on Monday to throw out his felony charges on the grounds they were ...

A pub used for filming of the new Harry Potter series has been "severely damage" by a fire. Fire crews were called to the ...

Common dolphins - among the ocean’s most abundant mammals - are living for an average of 17 years rather than 24 years in the 1990s.

One-stop absentee voting for the November municipal election is currently under way at the county Board of Elections office located in the Avery County Courthouse Annex, on ...

Stock markets rose Monday after conciliatory comments from US President Donald Trump eased worries about China-US trade tensions.

Bolivia's new center-right president-elect said Monday he would seek to reinstate diplomatic ties with the United States that were broken off nearly two decades ago under leftist ex-leader Evo Morales ...

Scandal-hit Prince Andrew could face more legal woes, his biographer Andrew Lownie told AFP Monday, as the British royal family braces for more damaging revelations in a posthumous memoir written ...

The Valle Country Fair returned with record attendance and fundraising to benefit Holy Cross Episcopal Church and the Valle Crucis Conference Center.

In the Pediatrics study, more than two-thirds of mothers (68%) did not get an RSV vaccine during pregnancy. Overall, about 28% of infants went without any immunization against RSV, either by their ...