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Asheville City SC players celebrate after clinching the South Central Division title with a 2-1 victory over Birmingham Legion WFC, earning a berth in the USL W League playoffs.
Local
4 hours ago
Asheville City SC clinches second straight USL W League division title

Lauryn Mateo’s two goals lift the Blues past Birmingham Legion as Asheville secures its third consecutive playoff appearance

Night scene of red and white fireworks exploding above a dark neighborhood, with silhouettes of houses and spectators at ground level.
Local
4 hours ago
Local city, county government offices to close for Fourth of July weekend

The Fourth of July holiday is just around the corner. While Western North Carolina prepares for fireworks, cookouts and other red, white and blue festivities, local government offices will be closed.

Families, soccer players and community members gathered during Asheville City Soccer Club's community partnership event Saturday in Asheville.
Community
10 hours ago
Asheville City Soccer Club gives back to community

Players, coaches and community organizations connected with families while supporting Babies Need Bottoms

Side-by-side headshots: left a man with a beard and receding hairline in an orange prison shirt; right a smiling woman with light brown hair outdoors.
Crime & Safety
22 hours ago
Grant, Loving to be arraigned Monday in Fairview triple homicide case

Star Melody Grant, 16, and Devan Loving, 28, are set for arraignment on first-degree murder charges in the May killings of her parents and grandmother

Sign for Pisgah View Apartments on a maroon board in front of a brick apartment building and greenery.
Crime & Safety
1 day ago
A breakdown of OD deaths, drug arrests in Asheville public housing

Pisgah View Apartments accounts for largest share of incidents, according to police data

Helene counties
Local
1 day ago
Free wildfire mitigation available for WNC land owners after Helene

North Carolina Forest Service program offers prescribed burns, defensible space treatments and fuel reduction at no cost in 39 disaster-declared counties

A used syringe on the ground in West Asheville
Crime & Safety
2 days ago
Asheville police: Detailed tips help crack down on trafficking, OD hotspots

As Buncombe County ranks fifth in North Carolina for fentanyl-positive deaths, Asheville police say detailed anonymous tips help investigators prioritize drug cases and overdose hotspots

Sign reading 'LAZY OTTER RIVER ACCESS' announcing it is now open to the public, with blue sky and trees in the background.
Outdoors
2 days ago
French Broad River access point reopens for public use near Mills River

Henderson County has regained a recreational river spot, now open for public use at the former site of Lazy Otter Outfitters in Mills River, N.C.

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