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FLETCHER, N.C. (WLOS) — Police have provided more information about the fatal collision that took the life of a 17-year-old in Fletcher this week. Shortly before 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, officers with the Fletcher Police Department responded to a collision on Mills Gap Road. Police confirmed the crash was a...

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - A toll lane or “managed lane” has been proposed to help with congestion on I-40 in Buncombe and Haywood counties. The French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization held a meeting where they discussed possibly creating a managed lane as part of a possible I-40 widening...

City of Asheville seeks applications for temporary Helene Recovery Boards. The City of Asheville is inviting community members to apply to serve on four newly formed Helene Recovery Boards, designed to guide Asheville’s recovery and resilience efforts following Tropical Storm Helene. “These boards will provide input...

It started in a converted school bus painted to look like outer space. It was 1994, and Kitty Love and her other young, punk, tattoo artist friends wanted to get far away from Baltimore, which they’d found too full of drugs and violence. They took to the road, driving...

Two people were charged in connection to stealing equipment belonging to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

This newsletter sponsored by Citizens Fuel Co., a family-owned Asheville company. A group of long-time managers of the Orange Peel, Asheville’s beloved and nationally renown downtown music venue, recently purchased the business from its founders, Public Interest Projects, and are charting a course for the future that...

Airports around the country and here in the Carolinas are declining to play a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A for-sale sign in downtown Waynesville is causing controversy for its location. The sign is hanging behind the Old Time Music Men statues on Main Street, a favorite spot for visitors and locals to take photos. The sign is adding an unwanted element to those...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — A Charlotte entrepreneur has turned the Blue Ridge Mountains into the setting for a real-life treasure hunt, hiding more than $26,000 in gold coins and the public to join the search. Adam Howell, a coin maker and founder of Countdown Treasure, says a glass jar...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Four major health systems are competing to build or expand hospitals in Buncombe County after the state determined the region needs 129 additional acute-care beds. According to the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP), published annually by the North Carolina Department of Health...