Nine Western North Carolinians will form the 2014-15 cohort of the Coulter Regional Leadership Academy, a regional leadership development initiative facilitated by Western Carolina University in partnership with the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning prescribed burns in the Canadian Top Knob, Mathews Branch, and Noland Mountain areas adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina.

A panel of Western Carolina University faculty members, including an environmental health professor who has studied the spread and control of infectious agents such as Ebola for more than two decades, will take part in a discussion about the virus on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Leaders from government, business and nonprofits across Western North Carolina will gather with economic development experts and others to discuss solutions leading to sustainable economic and community development at LEAD:WNC, a one-day summit set for Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Western Carolina University.

This is a list of the winners in the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. contests at the 2014 Cherokee Indian Fair.

The titles of Little Miss Cherokee, Junior Miss Cherokee and Teen Miss Cherokee were all given out at the Cherokee Indian Fair last week.

This is a list of winners from the Cherokee Indian Fair Parade and from Children’s Day.

These are the winners from the Community Day contests at the Cherokee Indian Fair on Saturday, Oct. 11.