Crime & Safety
1 year ago
Man arrested in assault at Aston Garden Apartments

Kaseem Carltrelle Simmons, 29, was arrested Thursday afternoon while leaving an apartment complex on Spruce Hill Court.

Business
1 year ago
Former classmates recall desegregation efforts in downtown Asheville

The F.W. Woolworth Co. Building is a locally significant landmark for its design as well as its importance as a site of local civil rights activism in the 1960s.

Education
1 year ago
After half a century, professor still at ‘promised land’ in Montreat

Fifty years since he arrived at Montreat College, Dr. Don Wayne King is still in the classroom as a prominent C.S. Lewis scholar.

AP File photo (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Local
1 year ago
About 12,150 gallons of wastewater spills into Wash Creek

Hendersonville officials notified the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, which is reviewing the matter.

A contractor surveys a downed power line on Wednesday, May 9, 2024, in the Candler Knob area, as two days of on-and-off thunderstorms toppled countless trees and tangled wires across Western North Carolina.
Local
1 year ago
WEEKEND WEATHER: Clean-up to continue during a respite from storms

Weather watchers might get a breather this weekend, after several days of on-and-off rains and damaging thunderstorms across the region.

Health & Wellness
1 year ago
AdventHealth prepares to file application on Weaverville project

AdventHealth has set a date for filing its Certificate of Need application to the state, and scheduled ‘listening sessions’

Crime & Safety
1 year ago
Fictitious license plate leads to drug arrests in West Asheville

A vehicle with fictitious tags drew police attention, leading to a pair of arrests on drug charges Wednesday in West Asheville.

Christian "Chris" Lachance, 76, is undeterred by the rain as he makes his daily walk picking up trash on Hazel Mill Road in West Asheville.
Health & Wellness
1 year ago
LOCAL HERO: Rain, lightning can’t slow man’s mission in West Asheville

Lightning flashes and pouring rain couldn’t slow Christian “Chris” Lachance’s mission combining exercise and city beautification.

Thunderstorms during the morning rush hour created slow, difficult driving conditions on the Patton Avenue bridge in Asheville and throughout the region on Thursday, May 9, 2024.
Local
1 year ago
WEATHER: Possible tornado causes damage in Black Mountain

Thunderstorms Thursday morning created problems for morning rush hour traffic and power outages across Western North Carolina.

Local
1 year ago
WEATHER ALERT: Asheville bracing for thunderstorm Thursday

It could be thunderstorm Thursday across the Asheville area and much of Western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina, the National Weather Service said.