Asheville NC

This is First Responder Friday with Blue Ridge Fire & Rescue, Valley Hill Fire & Rescue and Henderson Co. Sheriff's Office.

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A motorcyclist is recovering after surviving a hit-and-run incident from Saturday, June 14, at the intersection of Ridge Road and Blue House Road in Hendersonville that left him with two broken legs. Mike Weber says he was traveling south, on Ridge Road, on a motorcycle...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Multiple businesses in Asheville's Biltmore Village have started reopening almost nine months after Hurricane Helene, including Premier Sotheby's International Realty. Their renovations include a special tribute to those who lost their lives in the storm nearly nine months ago. Sotheby's took...

JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Crews are continuing to clean up large amounts of mud and debris from I-40 after a rockslide occurred on Wednesday. Officials with the Tennessee Department of Transportation say it's in the same area of I-40 that was damaged during Hurricane Helene. This time, the...

Officials excavating North Carolina's Lake Lure Reservoir following Hurricane Helene have unearthed two "remarkable" and rare artifacts from the dried lakebed.

A favorite pastime for many of Montreat’s summer visitors involves making a visit to the rocking chairs at Moore Center. There, you will find many a “Montreater” donning a new Montreat T-shirt, sipping on a cool, crisp Cheerwine, or simply listening to the hum of the Lake Susan Dam as they rock. Tucked behind the...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Buried at Violet Hill Cemetery in Asheville, Isaiah Rice may rest quietly today, but his legacy still speaks through his images. His photographs offer a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of Black families and neighborhoods in mid-20th-century Asheville. Born in 1917, Rice was a graduate...

Written by Andrew R. Jones, Asheville Watchdog. The City of Asheville has asked a judge to dismiss Asheville’s Watchdog’s lawsuit alleging violations of the state’s open meetings law following the 2022-2023 holiday water outage. The city’s motion, filed recently in Buncombe County Superior Court, did not directly...

Eight months ago, Hurricane Helene destroyed many of the things that made Asheville beautiful. Helene has not been the only destroyer. Private equity forced a few of our stores to close through bankruptcy, laying off workers. We have lost some of our favorite local hangouts to shortsighted profiteering. Some of our...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — A new rockslide and flash flooding near the Tennessee state line have once again shut down I-40, creating major detours, backups and growing frustration on the North Carolina side of the mountains. The closure affects the same stretch of highway damaged by Hurricane Helene less...