It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about that later. This is the situation on local waterways ...

The third of four parts Sandra Smith has a name for the towering new homes squeezed onto tiny lots in Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods: “Slim-talls.” She pointed out one after another on a ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What percentage of students in the ...

The second of four parts The Happy Hour crowd on South Slope pops into the breweries and restaurants that have helped land ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the ...

Eric Penland Jr., a quadriplegic patient whose nearly four-year stay at Mission Hospital became the subject of a legal battle ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Driving Interstate 40 at the Tennessee line where reconstruction is underway, there are several dozen huge steel ...

In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, the school said it ...

In June, the University of North Carolina Asheville announced a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, but put the plan on pause in August. // ...

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Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: As a resident of Haw Creek who also happens to live on New Haw Creek Road, we see very little progress on the “new ...

Although we hold sacred the right to vote, history informs us that rigging elections has been part of our republic since Elbridge Gerry took a pencil to a map in 1812 and scribbled lines creating a ...