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OLD FORT, N.C. (WBTV) - A truck driver’s death in one western North Carolina town has added to Hurricane Helene’s total. The driver, Ralph Hibbert, died when he lost brakes while driving through Old Fort earlier this month, the town said. The town said the “heroic” Hibbert acted...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) – Police are investigating a shooting Tuesday night where multiple shots were fired into an east Asheville apartment. Before midnight, the Asheville Police Department responded to the apartment complex on Future Drive. The suspected shooter was no longer at the scene upon police arrival....

There’s a moment when you take that first bite of truly exceptional Southern comfort food – time stops, your eyes involuntarily close, and you make that little “mmm” sound that’s universally recognized as the international symbol for “holy moly, this is good.”. That’s the...

Officials in the town of Old Fort, North Carolina, shared a touching tribute to a dump truck driver who lost his life when his brakes failed earlier this month. The crash took place on the morning of June 17, 2025, as 65 year old Georgia resident Ralph Hibbert was making the six-mile decent on eastbound […] The post...

Legacy at Mills River, a $255 million continuing care retirement community in western North Carolina, broke ground Thursday. Construction is expected to be completed in 2027. The CCRC will be the 24th senior living community for Wilmington-based senior Liberty Senior Living and its second in the region. It also will...

In addition to the I-40 closure, at least 20 North Carolina mountain roads are now listed off limits to large trucks after the torrential rains last week that flooded highways and triggered rock slides

When Hurricane Helene overwhelmed the Swannanoa River with more than 20 feet of flooding, the Veterans Restoration Quarters, run by Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, was ravaged. “We're actually bordered on two sides by the Swannanoa River. So when the water came down the river really hard, it hit us...

Barnardsville, NC — Children in Barnardsville who joyfully look forward to summer by splashing, swimming, and cooling off in the Big Ivy Community Pool are going without. Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene ruined the pool's $150,000 resurface job. The pool sits stained and empty of water. Families wait for word from...

All of this is happening at a time when natural disasters are happening more than ever before. Town left stranded in attempt to build back after hurricane amid FEMA cuts: 'That leaves us in limbo land' first appeared on The Cool Down .

ASHEVILLE, NC. (WLOS) — New allegations are leveled against Asheville Academy for Girls and Trails Carolina by Jane Doe R.B. in a federal civil complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Asheville. R.B. who lives in Greenville, South Carolina, attended both Asheville Academy and Trails Carolina around the...