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GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Power has been mostly restored to Buncombe County residents, according to the Duke Energy outage map. The map shows that seven outages have left 18 people without power. At this time, power is still expected to be restored by 9 p.m. The outage map says...

Madison County, North Carolina – Three residents from Northeast Tennessee are facing serious criminal charges after authorities say a Facebook Marketplace firearm sale turned into an armed robbery in western North Carolina. The suspects were arrested a day later in Tennessee and are now awaiting extradition. Incident...

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Buncombe County has FEMA-approved funds to explore ways to make a second major Helene landslide site safer for residents in the future. The Garren Creek landslide resulted in deaths in the Craig family when Helene hit the area, News 13 previously reported. Buncombe County...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A motion to amend a civil complaint accuses Buncombe County’s Pretrial Release Services Program and multiple county employees, ranging from the county manager to a case coordinator, of negligence in the supervision of Ryan Houston, who was charged with serious violent crimes. The complaint...

HENDERSONVILLE – As the mixed-use recreation Ecusta Trail reaches the six-month mark since its opening last summer , Henderson County and the nonprofit behind it are continuing to make tweaks amid sustained popularity. “We had a lot of people walking on it at the beginning, huge numbers, and those huge numbers are...

MACON COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) – Two people were arrested earlier this month after a SWAT team was called to search their home. According to McDowell County Sheriff’s Office on January 9, McDowell County Drug Enforcement and the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team executed a search warrant at a home in Marion. The...

Two individuals were sentenced to significant prison terms following guilty pleas related to large-scale narcotics trafficking, according to the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office. A joint agency search involving the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department assisted Federal Probation officers discovered 28 grams...

Confidence that a major winter storm will hit much of North Carolina this week is only increasing. The National Weather Service stated in an outlook that it is becoming more likely that the storm will bring wintry precipitation including snow, sleet and freezing rain, to parts of N.C., as well as to Upstate South...

ASHEVILLE - A new lawsuit claims Buncombe County has unlawfully operated its Pretrial Release Services Program without statutory authority and falsified a judge’s signature to receive grant funds. The suit is the latest and most expansive in a series of actions against the county after a pretrial defendant charged...