Grandfather Mountain’s Nola the otter died last week, the day after a vet visit.

Angela Shook of Boone is one of the 98 North Carolina college, graduate and law students selected for a ten week summer internship with a state agency.

Playwright Janet Barton Speer’s musical Moses Cone: The Denim King celebrates the man whose name is identified with Blowing Rock.

Senate Democrats finished their proposed state budget yesterday, a couple weeks after the House approved its spending plan.  

Legislation pending in the Senate would make it easier to sue over defective products in North Carolina.