
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.

Residents can help shape the priorities for highway, road and transit projects in an online Project Prioritization Survey for the State Transportation Improvement Program.

The Mountain Area Health Education Center is commemorating its 50-year evolution into a critical player in community health for the region.

The Hendersonville City Council on Thursday approved a 60-unit apartment building for low-income seniors at Greenville Highway at Chadwick Avenue.

A Buncombe County jury has convicted a registered sex offender of using an unreported Snapchat account to send illicit photographs, and he now faces a sentence of at least seven years in prison.

Western North Carolina woke up to some frosty conditions on Friday morning, after overnight low temperatures were barely above the freezing mark.

Will clouds cooperate with the “celestial ballet”? That’s the question floating over WNC before a partial solar eclipse Monday afternoon.