Asheville NC

Is it even summer without sweet corn? Sweetening up Buncombe farmers tailgate markets now, you can find yellow, white, and bicolor sweet corn from a handful of vendors. Like the taste of summer itself, corn on the cob has a way of bringing back memories—backyard cookouts, picnics, seafood boils, elotes, and more.

Planning continues for the proposed Saluda Grade Trail, a 31.5-mile rail-trail project that would connect communities from Inman, South Carolina, to Zirconia in Henderson County. Henderson County’s Greenway Network describes the trail as a regional project similar in spirit to the Swamp Rabbit Trail and Virginia Creepe

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Western North Carolina could see strong to severe thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon and evening, with forecasters warning that damaging winds and large hail are possible if storms develop ahead of an approaching cold front. The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg said confide

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Western Carolina Rescue Ministries is seeing a heightened number of people seeking support this summer, pushing the organization to expand hydration efforts as more people face the dangers of higher temperatures without reliable access to water. “We’re seeing even more people that are on the...

North Carolina has a way of hiding its best secrets in plain sight, and the Graveyard Fields Loop Trail near Canton is one of those secrets that deserves to be shouted from the mountaintop. At 5,120 feet above sea level, this trail doesn’t just ask you to take a walk....

Andy Buchanan and J. Fred Stack bring different backgrounds but a shared passion for art to Kiitos Fine Art in Asheville’s River Arts District. Stack, owner of the gallery, lived all over the United States and abroad before retiring to the North Carolina mountains more than 15 years ago. Although he long dreamed of ope

Flat Rock Playhouse (FRP) is captivating audiences with a new production of Rent, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical with book, music and lyrics written by Jonathan Larson and loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera La bohème. Lisa K. Bryant directs this spectacular production, a first professional stagi

The French Broad River has long been a favorite subject for artist Martin Pasco, but a new exhibition at the Asheville Gallery of Art narrows that focus even further, following the river from its headwaters at Courthouse Falls to Hot Springs near the Tennessee border. Martin Pasco: The French Broad River will be on dis

Sandra Brugh Moore’s favorite studio is the great outdoors. “Nature is the key to my inspiration as an artist,” she says. “I have always loved being outside in fresh mountain air. My parents both grew up on farms and had an appreciation for the land. They had a farm in West Virginia where they rebuilt an old log cabin.

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Power line work is impacting traffic near the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Emergency work is being done on power lines from Linda Vista Drive to Coolridge Street on 64 westbound. All the lanes are closed and are not expected to reopen until 8:12 p.m.