As part of the ongoing I-26 Connector project, the North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to close the Patton ...

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Marshall on June 6 for the return of the Mermaid Parade, a longtime community tradition that had been sidelined last year in the aftermath of Tropical Storm ...

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For a team of Western North Carolina filmmakers, it was an urgent call to pick up their cameras and start documenting the ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced that it will provide $10 million to 39 local EMS agencies through the NC Rural Health Transformation Program. The funds ...

Buncombe County experienced a 9.1% increase in homelessness from 2025-26, for a total of 824 people. Photo by Cindy Kunst For ...

Dogwood Health Trust is sharing a new disaster response playbook that captures lessons learned from their experiences responding to Hurricane Helene in 2024. The playbook and downloadable readiness ...

In January, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued another sanction of immediate jeopardy, meaning the ...

Asheville Police Department officers responded to the Westmont Commons apartment complex on Chamberlain Drive around 6:17 p.m on June 7th for several reports of a man wielding a knife.

The latest season of Montford Park Players (MPP) is upon us, and that means it’s time for some open-air Shakespeare.

Adam Booth ’s Appalachian 20th Century series is quite the undertaking. The native West Virginia storyteller’s goal is to illuminate the Appalachian experience over the course of 100 years, doing so ...

Born in London and a longtime resident of Nashville, singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock enjoys an influential and critically ...