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Ridge top focus group in Madison County holds 1st meeting on contentious topic
MARSHALL - Madison County is currently the only county in the state that regulates against building on mountain ridges, but that may not be the case for much longer, as the county is considering scrapping its 50-foot setback requirement. Madison County residents have decried the Madison County Planning Board's December...
NC Lottery numbers for April 28: Did anyone win big?
Grab your your April 28 NC Education Lottery tickets to see if you took home one of the game's many prizes. The Lucky for Life winning numbers for April 28 were 4, 25, 32, 35 and 40, with a Lucky Ball number of 9. There were no big wins this...
Sheriff deputies lend a hand for extra downtown Asheville foot patrol
Foot patrols in downtown Asheville on Friday and Saturday nights have gotten a boost thanks to extra manpower from deputies with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s deputies began working with the Asheville Police Department in January to provide ramped up coverage on weekend nights downtown. Since then, deputies have netted 210 contacts. Of those, 141 were “community contacts,” where deputies responded to concerns reported by members of the public about an observed behavior.
UPDATE: Panel enthusiastic about historic church as affordable housing
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — It wasn’t the biggest housing project on a planning commission’s agenda Wednesday, but a plan to convert the vacant Cappadocia F.B.H. Church into three residential units represents a milestone for preservation in Asheville’s historically African-American East End/Valley Street neighborhood. The church, dating...
Asheville Police Department K-9 passes away after six years of service
ASHVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Asheville Police Department announced that one of their K-9s, Rambo, recently passed away following a battle with cancer. Rambo was seven-years-old and had served on the force since 2018. During his time on the force, Rambo assisted with many weapons and explosives sweeps in...
HCA pruned staff at Mission Hospital, reaped soaring profits, academic study finds
Staff cuts have driven up patient-care profits at Mission Hospital in Asheville after HCA Healthcare acquired the facility, according to a draft report by Mark Hall, director of the health law and policy program at Wake Forest University. The report tracked the hospital’s profits from 2011 to 2022 and compared...
AVLFest Turns the Entire City of Asheville into a Giant Festival Ground
Reasons to Drive highlights the thrilling events happening within five hours of your city, giving you every reason to get on the road and start exploring. The second edition of Asheville, North Carolina’s AVLFest is coming up on August 1–4, and it's definitely worth the trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. First of all, Asheville is a perfect destination for a weekend trip—think Boulder, but at half the elevation and half the price. Breweries, music, and the Great Outdoors are the lifeblood of this sleepy NC town.
Madison softball coach Huff says team's goal is to win first playoff game since 2021
MARSHALL - As her team heads into a crucial two-game series with Owen High, Madison High softball coach Rebekah Huff said her team's main goal is to win its first playoff game since 2021, when Huff took over as head coach. As of May 1, the Patriots are 11-5 overall and sit...
Man wanted in grandmother's killing arrested in N.C.
RIVERDALE — A man wanted in the killing of his grandmother in Riverdale was recently arrested in western North Carolina, according to an alert sent by Clayton County Sheriff’s Office Sunday afternoon. As of Sunday, Takeem Rashad Moore, 33, was being held without bond in the Buncombe County...
Asheville mayor joins national task force to advocate for homelessness crisis funding
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and more than 40 mayors from across the nation were in Washington D.C. Monday, advocating for tens of millions of dollars for cities to address the homelessness crisis. The group is part of the Homelessness Task Force, comprised of mayors from...
The family who turned Asheville into Beer City celebrates 30 years of business
ASHEVILLE - The craft beer brewery that set the tone for Asheville’s robust beverage industry is turning 30 years old, and there will be many more years of creating a lasting impact, according to Highland Brewing’s founding family. In 1994, Oscar Wong, a Chinese-Jamaican immigrant and retired engineer, started brewing beer using refurbished dairy equipment and bottling it by hand from the basement of Barley’s, a pub in downtown Asheville. ...
Beloved West Asheville neighborhood bar to close by end of month
ASHEVILLE - Cascade Lounge bar in West Asheville is closing. The last full day of service will be April 29 as the bar will move out on April 30, Nick Rutherford, the owner of the bar, told the Citizen Times. Rutherford announced the closing April 25 on Facebook. Since then...
Asheville doubles order of bear-resistant trash carts to mitigate wildlife encounters
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — If you reside in Western North Carolina, you know living alongside mountain wildlife is part of the deal. One common -- and often messy -- encounter is black bears and the trash cans people leave out for pickup. To help keep humans and bears safe,...
Hot Springs Mayor believes she's found Robert E. Lee monument landowners. What's next?
HOT SPRINGS - After a Robert E. Lee Dixie Highway Marker plaque was stolen off the monument on which it sits in Hot Springs, the questions of who owns the land and how to proceed with the monument have confounded the town board for more than two years. But Hot...
New parking fees coming to downtown Asheville: what's going up, what's going down?
Changes are coming to parking fees in downtown Asheville this summer, with street parking meters nearly doubling, all-day parking in garages getting cheaper and a new caveat for the first-hour-free in garages. Here’s a breakdown of the parking fee adjustments . Changes to parking garage fees. • Garage Daily...
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