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Downtown After 5 will bring New Orleans music and culture to Pack Square Park on Friday, August 21. The free downtown Asheville event is now scheduled from 5 to 10 p.m. at 80 Court Plaza. J & The Causeways will headline New Orleans Night, with Bayou Diesel opening and Asheville...

When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina, federal weather photographers couldn’t reach the region because of destroyed roads, damaged infrastructure and widespread communications outages. Asheville photographer Michael Freas was already there. Freas’s images show the devastation from several perspectiv

You can walk into Foam & Fabrics Outlet with a simple project in mind and walk out hours later with enough inspiration for five more. Inside this enormous North Carolina fabric warehouse, towering bolts of colorful material, stacks of foam, and overflowing displays create the kind of visual feast that makes browsing fe

Buncombe County developers and property owners are being targeted by scammers demanding $4,000 to $10,000 in fake development fees, county officials warn. The emails can be difficult to distinguish from legitimate county correspondence. Scammers may use county logos and branding, the names of actual employees and real

A Buncombe County man wanted on outstanding failure-to-appear warrants faces additional charges after deputies say he fled a traffic stop in Fairview, crashed his vehicle and abandoned it. The man eluded authorities for nearly a week before he was found. James Eugene Cole III was the subject of an attempted...

In the early morning hours of August 4, 2026, Officers with the Spruce Pine Police Department apprehended two individuals in connection with the theft of copper wiring from the Ingles property. While conducting routine business checks, Officers observed suspicious activity at the location, which has remained closed due

A man wanted on multiple failure-to-appear warrants was arrested after deputies say he fled from them twice and eventually jumped into the French Broad River. Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies attempted to take Travelle Shade into custody shortly before 9 a.m. Aug. 4 near the intersection of Deaverview R

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending a series of changes that could make it easier to build more housing across the city, including duplexes and accessory dwelling units, while eliminating minimum parking requirements to comply with new state law. The recommendations

The story of how Asheville became a culinary destination will come to life during a lunch and learn presentation, The History of Food in Asheville, led by Heath Towson, Asheville historian and proprietor of Mountaineer Motor Tours. The event will be held Wednesday, August 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Hatchworks Co

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Charles Wade Steiner, 62, and Samantha Mariah Scott, 35, were arrested by the Asheville Police Department on open warrants last Sunday. Around 11:01 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 9, an APD foot patrol arrested Steiner and Scott on Haywood Street. During the arrest, Steiner was found in possession of