Hailing from Jamestown, Pennsylvania, Joshua Crawford has turned firewood into both a business and an art form with Cashiers Firewood, established around 2010. After moving to Cashiers in 1996, ...

After getting a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the ballot for the third time as a county commissioner, Gary Shields is ...

In previous years, Macon County volunteers worked with Toys for Tots, a U.S. Marine Corps Christmas toy donation program, but ...

For the second time in two weeks, a bomb threat prompted a lockdown that closed businesses in downtown Highlands. Around 1:30 ...

Highlands-Cashiers Hospital collected 2,312 pounds of canned food during its fifth annual Healthy Food for Healthier Tomorrow Food and Nutrition Drive as part of the HCA Healthcare food sculpture c ...

I have a wish list for Highlands going into the new year. Whether I get all that I believe we need as a town may or not become a reality, but I am always hopeful. First on my list is that we ...

The Cashiers Historical Society’s exhibit, “Let No One Be a Stranger Here”: High Hampton Inn & the Making of Modern Cashiers, was announced as a winner of the 62nd Annual GDUSA Design Awa ...

Fifty-six candidates will be on the ballot for Macon County’s 2026 primary election, running for 18 local, state and national seats. On Thursday and Friday there was an influx of can ...

The Town of Highlands has settled a legal dispute concerning its regulation of short-term rentals and the use of amortization, according to a consent judgment from the North Carolina Superior Court ...

The Open Space Institute (OSI) and Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT) have acquired the 104-acre Peregrine Tract along the southern face of Whiteside Mountain. Permanent protection of the p ...

Since 1985, the Highlands Emergency Council has hosted its annual Angel Trees gift-giving program for children in need each December. This year’s program featured ornaments for 73 low-income chil ...