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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A web of undulating asphalt paths will be part of Beacon Park, an 8.5-acre complex with climbing walls, a mile-long walking trail, a playground, and an event lawn with a capacity of 4,000. // Watchdog ...

In early March, John Boyle broke the news that Costco, after decades of looking in the area (and breathless anticipation among the retailer’s devotees), had submitted plans for a store to be built in ...

Documents obtained by Asheville Watchdog detail an array of staff errors, communication breakdowns and technological problems at Mission Hospital that state and federal regulators said put patients’ ...

Owning the land beneath their mobile home has given Laura Garcia and her husband the security to replace its ceilings, rebuild its exterior, add on a front porch and apply a fresh coat of light gray ...

We should all get in touch with the zipper. The zipper merge, that is! Get your mind out of the gutter, and onto the interstate. Not surprisingly, I apparently have been a bit of a dolt for not better ...

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 ...

Asheville’s Black population is disappearing faster than that of comparable cities in North Carolina, a trend that is accelerating and has transformed not only the makeup of the city but its cultural ...