Asheville News

It's commonly said that housing's hard to find in Asheville. Numbers from the U.S. Census and elsewhere shine a light on exactly how hard.

A trolley collided with the Miles Building at the corner of Haywood and Battery Park today, hitting the overhang above the wig shop.

A high-level Republican acknowledged that the city, and Buncombe County, have been targeted by GOP legislation in a hastily written resignation letter.

During the opening set at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall someone commented, "This is a nice place.

As mountain towns go, Asheville is far from the coldest. In January, the city's most frigid month, the highs hover around 47 degrees, with average lows of about 28.

Wanda Ruiz Padilla, a factory worker from Arden, plans to use the $200,000 she won playing the Power 7's scratch-off game to fix up her mother's home, pay bills and take her first vacation in six years.

Thursday, May 23 Start your weekend off with some color as local author Peter Loewer visits the Swannanoa Library for a presentation on the wildflowers of WNC.

Mike Rangel is in the business of being busy. He owns a restaurant, a brewery and a movie theater.

With a dozen craft breweries in Buncombe County and more in the region, Asheville has established itself as a beer destination.

Beer and food pairings are normal events in Asheville. Increasingly, so is beer brewed with food.

After three solid rainy weekends, the precipitation held off for the kickoff of Downtown After 5, which brought Big Sam's Funky Nation, Empire Strikes Brass and a colorful dancing crowd to downtown Asheville last Friday.

Have active kids? They will have plenty to do this weekend. Mountain Sports Festival is chock-full of family-friendly events .

For fans of locally made craft beer, it doesn't get much better than Asheville Beer Week.

State water quality officials this week amended a March lawsuit involving Duke Energy Progress' coal-fired power plant in Asheville in order to address similar environmental compliance issues at Duke Energy Progress' coal-fired power plant in Gaston County.

Jason Roy wants to be your Southern grandma. With the opening of Biscuit Head in West Asheville, his flaky creations will make grandma proud - in fact, he might even show her up.

The North Carolina General Assembly has begun its end-of-session wrestling to reconcile Gov.

After Asheville's only professional theatre dedicated to the original work left it's brick-and-mortar operation in the River Arts District, organizers have been working on a new show - and a space to house it.

Hybrid car owners would pay a special fee to recoup lost gasoline taxes under the state Senate's budget.

Nurse Connie Roberts carefully places a measuring tape around 1-month-old Ja'Marr Bowen's head.

RiverLink announced a partnership with the Downtown Association that enlists the Gray Line Trolley to provide a shuttle between downtown Asheville and RiverLink's RiverMusic in the River Arts District.