Asheville News

City police are investigating a drive-by shooting this afternoon in which two people were shot.

It's been a busy spring for new breweries and another one has quietly opened in West Asheville with the launch of the new Oysterhouse Brewing pub and restaurant at 625 Haywood Road.

Changing plans for an allied health and workforce development building proposed at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College could dramatically reduce its cost, building architects say.

The second annual Run For Shindig on the Green 5K Race & Fun Walk/Run, a fundraising benefit for Shindig on the Green, will be this Saturday, June 22, at Carrier Park on Amboy Road in Asheville.

Here's the press release from festival organizers: Asheville takes the stage again this summer in the seventh annual nationally renowned comedy festival: Laugh Your Asheville Off.

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.