A number of broadband projects in place in Macon County are nearing completion and will provide Macon County residents better ...

Josh Bryson - [email protected] For the second time in two weeks, a bomb threat prompted a lockdown that closed ...

Photo/Bob Scott - Contractors on the Franklin High School construction site have poured concrete for multiple parts of the ...

Health care insurance rates are expected to increase due to a decrease in federal government subsidies. How would you like to see the government address this issue?

The Macon County Retired School Personnel presented its teacher grants during the Dec. 15 Board of Education meeting. Fifteen ...

Many counties in Western North Carolina dropped in the state’s 2026 economic distress rankings after fallout from Helene left them in dire straits. Macon County showed progress, jumping from 73 t ...

Redraw districts to include at-large seats. Leave it alone.

Maintain all subsides to the Affordable Care Act. Sending all Americans a check to use on health care. Getting the government completely out of health care. Creating a single-payer universal ...

Fifty-six candidates will be on the ballot for Macon County’s 2026 primary election, running for 18 local, state and national ...

After getting a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the ballot for the third time as a county commissioner, Gary Shields is ...

Coweeta Hydrological Laboratory continues to serve as a premier facility for studying rainfall and watersheds in the ...

Forty years ago in December 1985 Joe Sanders first lit the cross that shines over East Franklin. “I wanted people to think ...