The Duke Endowment has granted $500,000, over two years, to the WNC Health Network.

SUBMITTED By DAVID WACHACHA EBCI EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT             One of the most important things you can do is to stay informed about what's expected. Outlooks and forecasts will change several times between now and when the storms happen, so if you want to be...

     Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains and the Backcountry Horsemen of Big Creek recently sponsored a stock-oriented, Leave No Trace Master Educator course and Leave No Trace Backcountry Packing Clinic in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  Leave No Trace (LNT)...

     Great Smoky Mountains National Park saw 1,202,056 visitors during June which represents a 7.2 percent increase over June 2011.       Year-to-date visitation is up by 11.5 percent which works out to 410,767 more people than during the same time last year.      All...