Buncombe County hotels experienced a rise in occupancy in 2025, while vacation rentals declined slightly, a shift driven by changing inventory and lingering post-Tropical Storm Helene demand from ...

Last month, James Melonas, the supervisor of North Carolina’s national forests, signed off on a Helene recovery plan that could span tens of thousands of acres of the Pisgah National Forest over ...

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The City of Asheville is pleased to announce an additional $6.9 million in combined state and federal funding dedicated to the city’s Helene Recovery and rebuilding efforts.

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The cemetery, already in need of repairs, was badly damaged when Tropical Storm Helene uprooted massive trees and hurled them ...

The article also noted the “greatest curiosity of the estate … the shanty of a colored man who refused to sell his nine acres to the millionaire.” The article claimed that Vanderbilt had offered the ...

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While Ruben J. Dailey is recognized as Asheville’s first Black City Council member, an earlier and largely forgotten pioneer ...

Asheville, NC (February 27, 2026): Asheville Police Department detectives are seeking the public’s help in locating a man who ...

One of Western Carolina University’s longest-running art traditions, the annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition opened in the ...

But restoration in Rollins is only a piece of Marshall’s ongoing recovery needs. Ryan Cody, Marshall’s town administrator, says 17 months into recovery, progress continues to come down to time and ...