Early voting in Watauga County has surged by 42% compared to the 2022 midterms, with 4,071 voters casting ballots in the ...

BANNER ELK — Lees-McRae College freshman student-athlete Tofik Beshir, a member of the school’s cycling team, remains under ...

The line between political favoritism and effective representation is remarkably thin. Why is access to public money so ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 15 The Wall Street Journal says investors in AI will demand a return sooner or later ...

One in three Americans may experience "retirement drift" — when retirement savings get fragmented, complicated, and harder to ...

Watauga County's median home sales price reached $595,000 in September, reflecting a 5.7% increase from August and leading ...

The Watauga Housing Council has been awarded $50,000 from the Z Smith Reynolds Community Progress Fund to support its mission ...

Girls are vaping more than boys, reveals a new study. But researchers found that cigarette use among both school-age boys and girls has plummeted with less than one in 200 today "established" ...

Stacker compiled the most popular baby names for girls of the 1940s in North Carolina using data from the Social Security Administration.

Oregon State researchers say adults with the least real-life emotional support had more than eight times the odds of ...

One fourth-and-short, Coy Greer rushes for a 28-yard touchdown in the third quarter of Watauga’s 35-26 win against Alexander ...

Tom, named after “ Lord of the Rings ” character Tom Bombadil, now spends his days roaming a three-acre field at the Farm ...