From its headwaters in Transylvania County, the French Broad River flows freely for 75 miles before hitting the 122-year-old Craggy Dam in Woodfin. Environmentalists and outdoorspeople have long ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently looked at the various programs that are being offered at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

For years, I’ve been curious about the Asheville Rides Transit bus that’s parked every morning outside the Reuter YMCA in Biltmore Park. I often arrive to work out about 7 a.m., and there the bus sits ...

Lou Bissette was the hard-charging, 45-year-old mayor of Asheville in 1989, when he heard the exciting news that state lawmakers had green-lighted the construction of the Interstate-26 Connector.

Maybe it was the request that Costco not use Styrofoam cups at its proposed store that blew it all up. Or the ask that the ...

A federal agency has lifted the latest finding of Immediate Jeopardy at Mission Hospital, but the facility remains “out of ...

David Moritz’s campaign for Asheville City Council ended with a loss in Tuesday’s primary, but he hopes his message about the root cause of the city’s yawning budget gap – bloated staffing – will ...

Among my favorite quotes citing the impact of money on elections were credited to two politicians who couldn’t have been more ...

Smokey Park Highway is a major east-west corridor in the Enka-Candler area and would have been a main gateway to a Costco in the Enka Commerce Center. Tim Anderson, division engineer with the NCDOT’s ...

In 1910, the father of American forestry got canned. Gifford Pinchot had developed his ideas in the woods of the Biltmore Estate, founded the Yale Forest School, and, in 1905, became the first chief ...

Asheville attorney Robert Perry Tucker II was found guilty Wednesday of conspiring with two others to illegally take ownership of a former police officer’s Arden house through bogus court and legal ...

Sign me up for free news alerts! When the Asheville City Council approved a $100,000 project to build bike lanes on Patton Avenue and College Street in October 2023, it was presented as a “quick-build ...