The Highlands budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year was unveiled to the public for the first time during the May board of commissioners meeting.
Highlands High School graduate Abigail Nichols was awarded the 2021 Mountain Findings Scholarship this year totaling $40,000 over four years.
The Zonta Club of the Franklin Area has selected Anne Marie Moore, of Highlands to be the recipient of their Young Women in Public Affairs $500 scholarship.
In 1886, an estimated magnitude 7.0 earthquake - the strongest and most destructive ever recorded on the East coast - devastated Charleston, South Carolina.
A large crowd packed Highlands Veterans’ Plaza on Monday for American Legion Post 370’s annual Memorial Day observance.
The resurfacing of US 64 from Carolina Way to Buck Creek Road in Highlands was back underway on Tuesday as NC Department of Transportation contractors got busy laying new asphalt.
Citizens who find themselves on the wrong side of the law will soon be able to pay their debt to society in Highlands via community service.
On Tuesday, May 25, at 2 p.m., officers of the Highlands Police Department received a call from the retail clothing store Potpourri about a shoplifting incident that had taken place just minutes pr
Highlands School 2021 graduate Ethan Tate was recently named as one of 30 recipients statewide of the North Carolina Association of Rescue and Emergency Medical Services “Children of Members” schol
For the past few years, local distance runner Canyon Woodward has competed in some of the region’s most daunting trail races, running dozens of miles over difficult terrain without rest or the thou