The North Carolina Department of Commerce ranks counties annually from most to least economically distressed. Some WNC ...

A Buncombe County man was sentenced to at least eight years in prison after pleading guilty to what prosecutors call a ...

Helene caused an estimated 1,000 landslides in Buncombe County alone. A new study will look at mitigation in Swannanoa's ...

A Buncombe County deputy has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and charged with assault on a female, ...

Impending impacts from Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill are expected to increase costs for SNAP by nearly $2 million for ...

Gary Parris, a retired Naval officer and former defense contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense, filed his bid for ...

The victim and the victim’s family were consulted before the plea was entered and were fully supportive of both the plea and ...

Investigators said Joshua Ryan Reece, 46, encouraged a juvenile victim to send sexually explicit videos to him in exchange ...

The economic distress tier system that NC agencies use to rank counties saw downward movement in places recovering from ...

Public health officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina, are seeing an uptick in cases of chickenpox among children from infants to teens.

When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, few organizations were as directly responsible for safeguarding some of the ...

North Carolina Representative for District 115, Lindsey Prather, filed for reelection on Dec. 1, her office announced in a ...