Buncombe County News

The VA Medical center and the Buncombe County Veterans Council held a memorial service this morning to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

It bothers me that in the last few weeks, the AC-T e-version at least, has had the front page main... Moving around the Buncombe County courthouse is much easier and faster now that an addition containing four new elevators is in use.

The City of Asheville and Buncombe County will host the community's annual Memorial Day ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday at Pack Square Park.

Andy Gibbon and Josh Gibbs couldn't have picked a worse time to start a small coffee roasting business.

For more than 35 years, the Asheville Civic Center, now known as the U.S. Cellular Center, has been the city's hub for top-notch concerts, civic functions, theatrical productions and sporting events.

Not long after midnight on a cold January morning, police officer Evan Flanders found himself facing the wrong end of a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver.

Photo of Don Yelton by Jake Frankel. This post follows up on issues first highlighted in the May 18 article, "Tensions Erupting Among Different Factions of Buncombe GOP." Divisions within the Buncombe County Republican party continued to play out this week, as its executive committee tabled a controversial "security amendment" and moved to strip ... (more)

Here's the full text of a "Security Amendment" under consideration by the Buncombe County Republican Party.

Josh Monroe is the chef and owner of the Chef's Table restaurant in Waynesville, known for its fresh pasta and extensive wine list.

Police officers and firefighters should be paid well for their work and dedication.

Well over eighty members and guests of the Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County gather for the Annual Griffin Awards for historic preservation at the NC Department of Cultural Resources Western Office.

Saturday, May 26, 2012 is a code YELLOW air quality forecast day for the valleys of Buncombe County.

Power was finally restored to thousands of Haywood Electric customers in Buncombe County Friday afternoon, but not before students at one school were released early.

Here's the text of a letter recently written by 10th District Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry to Buncombe County Republican Party Chair Henry Mitchell.

We've said it many times: There are so many beers being made around Buncombe County it's tough to... Josue Leon, 20, of Georgia Hill Drive, was charged with trafficking in cocaine and two counts of trafficking in methamphetamine.

We've said it many times: There are so many beers being made around Buncombe County it's tough to... Jeremy Burke, 26, of Glenn Bridge Road, took 'immoral, improper and indecent liberties' with a child under age 16 for 'the purpose of arousing and gratifying sexual desire' on Feb.

If God wanted the marriage between man to man or woman to woman, he would have done so in the... Police investigate a scene following an incident in which two pedestrians were struck on Smoky Park Highway on Thursday.

The Charles George VA Medical Center and the Buncombe County Veterans Council will commemorate Memorial Day at the Western North Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Black Mountain on May 28, 2012.

Sue Ellen Morrison with the Buncombe County Department of Health says they are still getting new salmonella cases reported to them every other day or so.

Over the last several years I have witnessed greed and corruption take hold in America, where what matters, the only sign of a person's success in life and value as a human being, is money.