In her four seasons at Western Carolina, Jessika Johnson has been shining for the Lady Catamounts on the basketball court and is now out leaping opponents in her final season on the Catamount Track and Field team. Johnson, a senior, who also plays basketball under head coach Kellie Harper for […]

The Western Carolina Lady Catamount softball team took its first conference series of the year by beating the UNC Greensboro Spartans two out of three games April 5-6. The win was a big step in the right direction as the Catamounts have struggled through the first two thirds of the […]

Litter, old houses and dilapidated shops line Old Cullowhee Road, which is located on the back side of WCU’s campus. It is probably not the best spot for a picnic or a night out on the town. How can we make Old Cullowhee a much better place? A community group […]

10. RESTON, Virginia (CNN) — William Kim still calls the cell phone of his son, a 21-year-old senior at Virginia Tech, just to hear his voice. He feels cheated out of a chance to save his only boy. 21- year-old senior Daniel Kim, committed suicide only eight months after the […]

Western Carolina University is currently undergoing an upgrade. One of the two structures being built on the lower campus is a new dinning facility.Mike Doppke and Rick Nicholson of Aramark, the university’s food provider, answered a few questions about the new dinning facility. The facility, which currently is unnamed, will […]

Tokyo Police Club is a band based out of Ontario, Canada. Though the band delivered to expectant fans with Elephant Shell, they started out with their first EP A Lesson in Crime (Paper Bag Records) that was, in essence, the bleak-beautiful-cynical image of Blade Runner packed into a 16-minute recording. […]

Despite the Catamounts finishing 10-21 overall and earning a ninth seed in the Southern Conference Tournament this season, Catamount head coach Larry Hunter showed just why he is the 14th winningest active head coach in the NCAA with the way his team responded despite many different obstacles the team faced […]

1. A tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, rippling the roof of the Georgia Dome during a college basketball game, shattering windows and ripping roofs from buildings before tearing into several residential neighborhoods. 15 people were clamed to be injured but none were killed. A tornado warning was […]

FOLLOW UP- Suspect of the Feb. 9, 2008 vandalism in Harrill Residence Hall has been found. Detective Robbie Carter, Officer Trent Turpin, and Lieutenant Kent Davis arrested 22-year-old WCU student Anand Rushikesh Mehta just after he got out of class the week before Spring Break. University Chief of Police Tom […]

As an array of off-season moves are made in the National Football League, the Carolina Panthers are in the middle of it all. Teams are taking a look at last years season and what players they should keep or let go to better their franchise. It’s the unpredictable world of […]