An individual in Sparta has died due to COVID-19 complications and is the first death in Alleghany County related to the virus, AppHealthCare wrote in a press release. The patient died Oct.7 and were...

Instead of  hosting High Country tourists and travelers passing through Boone, Super 8 hotel on Highway 105 is hosting App State students in COVID-19 isolation and quarantine. In an agreement with...

App State announced four new COVID-19 clusters and four new positive cases connected to the football team in an email Thursday morning. This announcement comes one week after the university announced seven...

Friday is the final day to register to vote for the 2020 election. After Friday, people can register to vote at one of the early voting sites across Watauga County.  Matt Snyder, Watauga County director...

Rivers Street Ale House has closed dine-in operations, now only filling take out and delivery orders after Boone’s spike in COVID-19 cases. The restaurant posted a statement signed “The Ale House...

This article was originally published Oct. 24, 2018. It has been updated to reflect Foxx's run this election. Virginia Foxx, current Republican representative for the 5th Congressional District in North...

Living through a pandemic while recovering from a quadruple-bypass surgery won’t stop one App State alum from campaigning for the 5th Congressional District of North Carolina. David Wilson Brown graduated...

Frustration about the university’s response to COVID-19 and demands from the Black at App State Collective has led Black Appalachian Student Ambassadors to refrain from giving campus tours. “What...

The Rivers Street Parking Deck COVID-19 testing site prematurely ran out of COVID-19 tests Oct. 3 during App State’s weekly free Saturday testing. In collaboration with App State, Mako Medical Laboratories...

Watauga County has nearly 70 candidates on the ballot for the 2020 election. To help our readers decide who to vote for, The Appalachian sent five questions to every local and major statewide candidate. Each...

Board of Commissioners The following questions were sent to each candidate for the Watauga County Board of Commissioners What plans do you have to help Watauga County recover from the COVID-19 pandemic?  ...

Governor The following questions were sent to Dan Forest and Roy Cooper: What does an effective health care system look like to you? What plans do you have to boost North Carolina’s economy...