Unable to find commercial warehouse space for the Asheville Fire Department, the city might lease space in neighboring Black Mountain instead.
“It is not OK to silence people through intimidation in this way,” Mayor Esther Manheimer said.
Police have identified the motorcyclist killed in an east Asheville crash Wednesday night.
An 18-year-old man is charged with first degree murder, and a 33-year-old woman is charged with being an accessory after the fact, in connection with a homicide Sunday at a Long Shoals Road apartment complex, Asheville Police confirmed.
Juneteenth events Wednesday helped highlight efforts to revitalize ‘The Block,’ a historic neighborhood of Black-owned businesses in downtown Asheville.
Some of the mountains’ greatest treasures are the swimming holes just mere steps off the beaten path.
A Linked4Life initiative will help Asheville’s food and beverage workers gain access to no-cost counseling and a network of peer advocates.
Commissioners reduced a property tax increase from 5.12 percent to 3.93 percent and gave final approval to a $440,635,235 general fund budget.
Three years since a nearly $50.7 million infusion of coronavirus recovery funds, county commissioners reallocated the last $1,935,286. Part of the funds, $514,085, is being shifted to help extend four positions in the Community Paramedic Collaborative by 18 months.
A woman was arrested early Tuesday while attempting to break into an east Asheville business, police say