A firefighter cuts a whole in the roof during the training. A firefighter works to cut a ventilation hole. Firefighters ...

After going 13 years between all-district selections, Watauga’s softball team has made it back-to-back seasons with players ...

The Horn In the West Outdoor Drama will be performed every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from July 10 through Aug 2 starting ...

A small fixed-wing aircraft crashed in a wooded area in Beech Mountain, the Watauga Democrat reported on July 8, 2012. The ...

A massive concert in Croatia by a singer notorious for his pro-Nazi sympathies was branded a "neo-fascist Woodstock" Monday, ...

The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra will perform downtown at Appalachian Theatre of the High Country on Saturday, July ...

Almost 10 months after the town of Lansing experienced historic flooding, from Hurricane Helene, the inaugural Fly Around ...

Ember Honeycutt, a rising freshman at Watauga High School, was part of a Western North Carolina club volleyball team that ...

Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since the start of June, the UN's refugee agency said on Monday, after Tehran ...

French-speaking King Charles III, who is hosting President Emmanuel Macron for a state visit starting on Tuesday, professes a ...

Most Asian markets fell Monday as countries fought to hammer out trade deals days before Donald Trump's tariff deadline, ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted, spewing a colossal ash tower 18 kilometres (11 miles) into the sky on Monday, ...