Asheville will spend the last $501,384 of its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to help the Asheville PEAK Academy boost academic performance and reduce an “opportunity gap” for students from low- to moderate-income homes. The issue approved on the consent agenda of a City Council meeting on March 12, 2024, at Asheville City Hall.
A suspect has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on a pedestrian Feb. 29 in West Asheville, police said.
Buncombe County and the Land of Sky Regional Council are teaming up to seek funding for affordable housing.
The days are numbered for the long-vacant Haynes Tower building at A-B Tech’s Enka campus now that the Buncombe County Commission has approved a $648,990 contract for demolition.
A 55-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with Asheville’s first confirmed homicide of 2024, a beating death discovered early Friday morning (March 8) in the Compass Point Village area.
Asheville-area non-profits are highlighted at Goodwill’s Business Advisory Council (BAC) session.
Investigators determined that “smoking while using medical oxygen” was the likely cause of a mobile home fire on Wednesday, March 6, that resulted in the death of a 74-year-old Candler resident, the Buncombe County Fire Marshal’s Office reported.
Two years since a devastating fire, the Sly Grog Lounge is about to complete its comeback, like a quirky Phoenix rising from the ashes on the fringes of downtown Asheville.
Fewer Buncombe County voters turned out for the March 5, 2024, primary election compared to the primaries during the two most recent presidential primary years of 2020 and 2016.
A local brother and sister earned “golden tickets” to Hollywood during the March 3 telecast of the television competition American Idol.