Richie Owens grew up surrounded by music and stories, many of them tied to his family’s roots in East Tennessee and his ...

WYTHEVILLE, Virginia — Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph. Interstate 77 comes up out of North Carolina.

At age 91, Dale "Greybeard" Sanders set the record as the oldest person to complete the nearly 2,200-mile-long Appalachian Trail.

The Appalachian State Mountaineers (3-0) visit the NC State Wolfpack (1-2) at Wayne Day Family Field at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday, September 26, 2026.Th ...

An Owl’s hoot means…There are sounds that belong to the mountains after dark. Wind moving through the trees. The steady chorus of insects. A creek somewhere below the house. A dog barking at something ...

A follow-up to "Demon Copperhead," the Pulitzer Prize winner's new novel asks what art is for through the prism of life's struggles - and rewards.

On the eight hundredth anniversary of Saint Francis's transitus, I was thankful to have found my vocation.I will never fear ...

Heaton community resident Leslie Laws said she didn’t know her grandfather had worked on Tweetsie, the narrow-gauge railroad that once ran through Avery County, until she heard a ...

Appalachia has plenty of beautiful scenery and delicious food, and any traveling foodies should stop by these towns for the best cuisine in the area.

Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders is a 91-year-old Baptist layman who last month set a record for the oldest thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail (AT) — a record he had previously set at the age of 82 on a ...

Hymns of Blue Hollow wins editorial praise as the five-book series reaches 16 million Kindle Unlimited pages read. A ...

Reba McEntire and Sally Field honored the late Dolly Parton at the 2026 Emmys Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty The Emmy Awards will always love Dolly Parton. Just weeks after the country legend died ...