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With bee populations on the decline, mountain gardeners can take action to make their landscapes healthier and more attractive to these important pollinators.

It is one tiny bench. 'I don't really like it, dude,' Ricky Boings, a self-described homeless man, said flatly Friday afternoon as he stood beside a bench barely big enough for one person Columnist John Boyle talks with Ricky Boings about the modification of a bench on Walnut Street in downtown Asheville, N.C. Boings is homeless and feels the bench ... (more)

As temperatures rise this summer, the Council of Aging of Buncombe County wants to help local seniors and persons with disabilities stay cool.

ASHEVILLE - Community Choreography Projects returns to Diana Wortham Theatre this Thursday-Saturday with more movement-based stories from real life to benefit Four Seasons Hospice, a nonprofit offering end-of-life care in Western North Carolina.

GE Aviation has selected Asheville, NC as site for its new advanced composite component factory, president and CEO David Joyce announced at the Paris Air Show.

Asheville will be home to the nation's first factory manufacturing ceramic matrix composites, a revolutionary new material that can be used in jet engines to reduce fuel costs and greenhouse gases.

A city man is behind bars after police say he was knocking on doors at condos in East Asheville while nude.

Murder is lurking around every corner on the new ABC-TV reality show "Whodunnit?" and Asheville cardiac nurse Dana Davis Blake is right in the thick of it.

'This is for Billy,' Filmore thought as he bit into his foie gras doughnut, while picturing a faceless food insecure child, Filmore would likely never meet or associate with.

Gawain Mainwaring is living the dream right in the heart of West Asheville, even though he's not a millionaire, doesn't own a fancy house or a luxury car, and would opt for a sun-dappled river raft over a moonlit yacht.

ASHEVILLE - Kimberly Clark, a math teacher at Owen High School, has been awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's 2013 Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers.

They were married on June 11, 1958, in Asheville, N.C. They will celebrate with a trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. They have six children, Jack Pruitt , Lisa McKenna , all of Fairview, Kevin "K.P." Pruitt, Susie Pruitt, both of Asheville, Brenda Haney , of Waynesville, and the late Norman "Normie" Pruitt.

The agency says Deputy Jason Honeycutt was arrested at an Asheville hospital by police earlier this week and was fired.

An Asheville man and woman were charged with multiple felony counts of possession of stolen goods and larceny, including the theft of cars and a handgun, according to arrest warrants.

An Asheville resident faces multiple felony charges, including possession of a gun by a felon and multiple drug charges, according to arrest warrants.

It was all about dads Saturday at the second annual Father's Fest celebration in the meadow at Highland Brewing, as dads and granddads sipped cold brews, lounged in hammocks under shade trees and played games in the grass with their kids and grandkids.

Residents of five fire districts in suburban and rural parts of Buncombe County would see property tax increases and those in 10 districts would see reductions under requests to be considered by the Board of Commissioners later this month.

I think it's time to go ahead and call it, Answer Nation. This town has the best crop of semi-serious conspiracy theorists in the world, and this week has really cemented that ranking in my book.

Counter Culture Coffee will offer its Brewing Basics education workshop in Asheville, Atlanta, Boston, Durham and NYC this month .

Asheville had more hits than Hickory and Christ School graduate Christian Jewkes was 2-for-3 with his second home run of the season.