Asheville area officials urge residents to stay indoors, prepare for power outages and seek shelter if needed
Local AM, FM and Spanish-language stations and NOAA frequencies provide emergency alerts, weather updates and information during outages
Residents urged to move vehicles off streets by Friday evening to allow snow plows to operate
Ice, dangerous roads and power outages expected; 72-hour preparedness recommended
Community has been without local mail service since Tropical Storm Helene more than a year ago
Travel discouraged amid snow, ice and dangerously cold temperatures
NCDOT begins pre-treatment of interstates and primary and secondary roads in Asheville area
Two non-residential structures destroyed; no injuries reported
A section of local music venue White Horse Black Mountain collapsed earlier today during construction work on the building. No one was injured during the accident.
Harold Kenneth “H.K.” Edgerton, former president of the Asheville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a vocal advocate for the preservation of Confederate history, has passed away at the age of 77.