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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Nearly eleven months after Hurricane Helene, one local brewery is set to reopen its doors this week. Zillicoah Beer Company in Asheville will welcome the community back this Thursday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m. The brewery closed last September after Helene floodwaters from the French...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — North Carolina’s Health and Human Services Secretary Devdutta Sangvai sent an open letter to State Legislators, warning of possible Medicaid program cuts affecting millions of North Carolinians and reductions to providers due to funding gaps from the Federal government. Sangvai wrote...

The Asheville Police Department (APD) said that two people were arrested during a joint operation with the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).

Editor’s note: Interviews for this article were originally conducted in Spanish and translated to English by Anya Petrone Slepyan and Julia Tilton. On a Friday evening in Emma, North Carolina, an unincorporated community west of Asheville, noise echoes across the Porvenir Community Center. Young children play in one...

HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — UPDATE: Henderson County authorities say Emily Abigail Gray has been found safe. Henderson County authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 15-year-old. In a Tuesday, Aug. 19, social media, deputies said Emily Abigail Gray left her home in Zirconia on...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — An early-morning fire on Aug. 19 destroyed a local apple farm's barn and the equipment inside, according to the Henderson County fire marshal. Kevin Waldrup told News 13 on Aug. 20 that the fire, which happened at a barn located off Carmack Drive in Hendersonville, is still under...

FOX Carolina's Alexa Erbach has the details. Officials said 22 homes will be destroyed. Officials said that as of Monday, the cemetery will resume its regular hours. People are preparing to preserve its legacy and make something new. Updated: 6 hours ago. |. Anyone with information related to the case...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Asheville police say a juvenile was taken into custody on Friday, Aug. 15, after he fired a gun and damaged a vehicle. Officers responded to a report of gunfire on Roberts Street at around 4:55 p.m. Friday. Police say the victim told officers they were...

A patient who died in February after calling for help in a Mission Hospital emergency department bathroom went 29 minutes with no response as multiple staff members passed by the door with a call light flashing above, according to documents obtained by Asheville Watchdog. By the time an employee entered...

Amanda Wimbish works full time as a special education teacher at A.C. Reynolds High School and part time delivering meals for Uber Eats. But she is also raising her 12-year-old daughter as a single mother. She has a mortgage to pay and, in pursuit of her master’s degree, she said, “I had to take out extra loans.”