Longtime Burke County Public Schools Superintendent Larry Putnam announced his resignation at the Monday evening’s work session of the Burke C…
Watch live as the Burke County Board of Education hosts a work session Monday night.
The last year has been one of the most difficult any of us have ever experienced. The global pandemic has altered most everything that we once…
While Burke County Public Schools middle and high school students returned to the classrooms for a modified Plan A instruction last week, a lo…
Burke County Public Schools staff members could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when nearly 400 of them were able to get vaccinated against…
As the N.C. School of Science & Mathematics extends its mission by adding a second residential campus in western North Carolina, members o…
The N.C. School of Science and Mathematics' Durham campus was recently rated the fourth-best public school in the country by Niche, a website …
On Monday, Burke County Public Schools pre-K through 5th graders returned to full time instruction for the first time since the pandemic close…
For the first time in nearly a year, local elementary students were in person full time at Burke County Public Schools locations on Monday und…
North Carolina School for the Deaf resumed in-person classes on Feb. 8.
Burke County Public Schools will operate on a two-hour delay Friday.
Noe Lopez believes a strong work ethic and kindness are essential to success and has carried that mission into his work as a medical lab assis…
Due to the expected inclement weather, Burke County Public Schools will be closed Thursday for all students, be it in-person, remote or virtua…
Increased assistance from Meritor Inc. has allowed the N.C. School for the Deaf to expand its science, technology, engineering, mathematics an…
Daphne Beam poured more than 20 years of her life into enriching the lives of both students and staff at Freedom High School.
RALEIGH — The N.C. House on Thursday approved a bill to compel public school districts to offer at least partial in-person instruction to thei…
The Quaker Meadows Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has endowed a new scholarship for students at Western …
Nursing students at Western Piedmont Community College volunteered at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic during the last two weeks of January as Bu…
The Burke County Board of Education met in the middle of the day Thursday at a last minute, emergency-called meeting where it voted to send st…
CULLOWHEE — The Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western Carolina University has issued an assessment of economic recovery, sustaina…
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Transparent government. If it wasn’t apparent enough that those two words are an oxymoron, the Burke County Board of Education confirmed it wi…
In a last-minute emergency meeting called only 18 hours before, the school board voted Thursday to send all Burke County Public Schools studen…
The Burke County Board of Education has refused to allow any comments from the public or the media during its emergency-called meeting at noon…
The News Herald was made aware tonight, with less than 18-hours notice, of plans for the Burke County Public Schools Board of Education to mee…
With the spring 2021 semester now underway, The News Herald reflects back on the accomplishments of local students in the fall 2020 semester.
The mental health of students during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a key issue raised by many Burke County concerned parents and residents in…
CULLOWHEE — Western Carolina University has been ranked among the top providers of online programs by U.S. News & World Report in numerous…
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