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(RALEIGH) Today Governor Josh Stein and local officials from Buncombe, Ashe, Haywood, Madison, and Rutherford counties traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with the Trump admin and members of Congress about North Carolina’s request for $13.5 billion in new funding for Hurricane Helene recovery.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 2:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy was in Haywood County Monday morning to survey Hurricane Helene damage and recovery efforts along I-40 near the Tennessee line.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 @ 6:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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$7.5 million grant will help dislocated workers train for new jobs
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 11:30 am
By: Governor's Office
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A Haywood County Superior Court jury on Thursday convicted 52-year-old Dewey George Gidcumb Jr. of voting twice in North Carolina's March 2016 primary, a Class I felony
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2017 @ 8:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Leland Haywood Everette, age 78, died May 26, 2015 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
By: Announcements
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Local and state officials from Haywood County have proposed a resolution that would increase the county's occupancy tax by 50 percent. Any increase in the tax rate should be put forward in a referendum, not a simple resolution by county commissioners.
Published: Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Haywood County would place its local hospitality businesses at a competitive disadvantage with those in surrounding counties, if local and state officials move forward with a proposal to raise the county's occupancy tax rate by 50 percent. That's one key conclusion in a new John Locke Foundation...
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Haywood County commissioners and area municipal officials are hoping a proposed 50-percent increase in the region's occupancy tax will help them build capital projects and spur area tourism. But they face opposition from one of the region's legislators, and that could scotch the tax hike...
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 5:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Haywood Broome and Ted Clayton, instructors at Beaufort County Community College, were recently awarded certification as Craft Instructors by the National Center for Construction Education and Research.
Published: Friday, October 11th, 2013 @ 9:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After the English Civil War, in 1660 King Charles II was restored to the throne, and the crown rewarded its political allies with vast tracts of land in British America. Eight tracts were bestowed to eight lords proprietors in Carolina (later divided into modern-day North and South Carolina).
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Haywood “Bay Bro” H. Moore, of 322 New Hope Road, Washington, died, Monday, July 15, 2013, at home.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 11:14 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Haywood "Bay Bro" H. Moore, of 322 New Hope Road, Washington, died, Monday, July 15, 2013, at home.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm
By: Announcements
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Hattie Haywood Wiggins, 87, a resident of 4826 Old Blounts Creek Road, Chocowinity, died Monday, January 7, 2013, at her home.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 10:50 am
By: Announcements
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State Rep.-elect Joe Sam Queen, D-Haywood, cannot collect damages worth three times the amount of money his 2010 state Senate opponent spent on television ads in their campaign.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A search of the vehicle and its occupants revealed 28 grams of marijuana located in several plastic baggies packaged for resale, a set of digital scales, $700.00 in cash and 10 grams of crack-cocaine and powder cocaine mixture.
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 @ 3:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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