Commissioners will also be considering funding cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) rate for employees that is based on the two-year average annual change in the CPI-W, measured as of December’s data. The ...

Buncombe County Schools (BSC) and Asheville City Schools (ACS) are facing state funding shortfalls for their Exceptional Children (EC) programs, which provide tailored learning for students with ...

Soul singer Lee Fields was in love with music from an early age. But by age 13, music wasn’t his only passion. “My interest ...

Buncombe County Schools (BSC) and Asheville City Schools (ACS) are facing state funding shortfalls for their Exceptional Children (EC) programs, which provide tailored learning fo ...

Asheville’s Music Industry Is Bigger Than It Was in 2016 — But Structurally Different Three new studies show a half-billion-dollar industry that is ...

NCDOT to Open U.S. 64 Into Bat Cave on Saturday Lower section nearly complete, completion of upper section coming in May. BAT CAVE – The N.C. Departmen ...

Second Shooting Suspect Charged and In Custody (March 23, 2026): Asheville Police Detectives have charged a second person in connection with the March 8th shooting downtown. Ashonta Foursha Basnight ...

Since its inception in 2017 as the Nasty Woman Art Show, the event now known as Art for Autonomy features 100% donated work, ...

Derived from the Italian words for “light” and “dark,” chiaroscuro describes the strong contrast between light and shadow in ...

Organizations such as the YMCA, Children First, Horizons, Unete, OpenDoors, YTL, My Daddy Taught Me That and In Real Life are ...

The Asheville Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing man. Gerald Bethel Colwell (02/19/1966) ...

As for teenagers — don’t let generational bias trick you into seeing a lack of resilience. They are — perhaps surprisingly — ...