Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is confronting skeptical questioning at a Senate confirmation hearing about the creation ...

An adorable baby lowland tapir resembling a "tiny watermelon" has been born at a UK zoo. The rare male calf arrived at mother Fifi at Hertfordshire Zoo on July 8 following a remarkable 430-day ...

While the buzz around the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games often involves the cumbersome athletic feats and one-of-a-kind ...

Like many places across the United States, World War II helped to bring Avery County and the surrounding area out of the ...

Risks of potentially devastating solar storms may be underestimated, warns a new study. And the effects of extreme space ...

By permanently adopting daylight saving time, parts of America won't see sunrise until 9 a.m. — which could pose safety ...

Elephants can communicate with each other through ground vibrations thanks to their massive ears, reveals new research. Their ...

The Avery County Board of Education approved five revised policies, adopted year-end budget measures, approved a five-year ...

For four days each July, the plaintive skirl of bagpipes fills the meadows each day (and night, at the camps). Men in tartan ...

Picture a Scottish clan member and you likely think fair skin, blue eyes, maybe a shock of strawberry blond hair.

Avery County commissioners renewed a key board appointment, approved $150,000 in opioid settlement funding, adopted a series ...

The Avery Journal-Times recently interviewed Lauren Farrell, Education Director at Grandfather Mountain, to discuss her love ...