Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the ...

Asheville does seem to love a lingering empty lot, or an empty building. As I noted in a September column, we have a fair number of empty buildings that remain after Helene, some significantly damaged ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Where are our Elephants on Parade that sweetly adorned the wall that funnels the endless traffic from Interstate 240 ...

Sign me up for free news alerts! The inaugural cohort of the University of North Carolina Asheville’s new master’s program in environmental resilience arrived on campus at a fraught and fortuitous ...

Development company L.B. Jackson & Company of Arden wants to build 84 homes on a 27-acre parcel that straddles New Haw Creek Road in east Asheville. The developer wanted to access the site via land on ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. Our mission at Asheville Watchdog is, of course, ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Where are our Elephants on Parade that sweetly adorned the wall that funnels the endless traffic from Interstate 240 ...

The inaugural cohort of the University of North Carolina Asheville’s new master’s program in environmental resilience arrived on campus at a fraught and fortuitous moment. The university’s ...

Except for the possible addition of slow-moving longshots before noon Friday, the campaign filing deadline, the fields are set for March 3 party-primary elections that may shift the political balance ...

The acute nursing shortage plaguing Asheville and Western North Carolina will reach “crisis” levels over the next decade, experts say, with one estimate projecting the region to be short nearly 2,000 ...

Before urban renewal, Asheland Avenue was lined with mostly Black-owned single-family homes. After they were sold and demolished, the street became a strip of office buildings and commercial ...

Mission Health facilities in Asheville had more than 450 registered nurse vacancies in mid-October 2023, according to company staffing data obtained by Asheville Watchdog. The deficit occurred during ...