Contentious development issues will take center stage April 23, when the Asheville City Council considers a 95-unit housing project and other zoning issues.
It’s in reaction to data showing a disproportionate number of people in mental health crisis being treated in hospital emergency departments.
An 18-year-old driver is facing a charge of reckless driving and two counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in connection with a crash Saturday night at an off-ramp to Interstate 40 in Asheville.
Police are asking for the public’s help to investigate a spate of drive-by shootings that have damaged property.
Black Mountain’s police chief says his headquarters is cramped and obsolete, but the mayor isn’t convinced it needs to be replaced.
The communities are considering ‘social districts’ to allow regulated “to-go” alcohol sales within specific boundaries.
Police have added a Second Degree Murder charge against a man accused of assaulting a pedestrian Feb. 29 on Haywood Road near Craven Street in Asheville.
Clouds thinned just in time. Asheville saw the partial eclipse. The region avoided the path of total disappointment.
In a separate incident early Sunday, a Fletcher man died in a wrong-way crash on the interstate.
In Asheville and elsewhere, partly cloudy forecasts are tempering expectations for Monday’s eclipse of the sun.