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IN HENDERSON COUNTY, ONE OF THE WORLD'S ;LARGEST HEALTH CARE MANUFACTURING COMPANIES PLAN TO EXPAND ITS OPERATIONS AND CREATE MORE JOBS.

To answer Loretta O’Hanlon’s letter about being safe in Asheville [“Downtown Doesn’t Feel Scary,” May 20, Xpress] — forget it. I’ve lived here 32 years as of this June, and the last 18 years on my own, and so I have to rely on Asheville buses or footwork to get my errands done.

The man who was once second-in-command at the Madison County Sheriff's Office remains in jail on a $1.5 million dollar bond.

MARSHALL, N.C. (WLOS) — When Helene's floodwaters tore through Marshall nearly 21 months ago, Shirley Chambliss lost nearly everything in her weaving studio. "We were on the roof when the rain came," Chambliss said. "We didn't have a clue." She watched as floodwaters destroyed buildings and carried away decades...

FAIRVIEW, N.C. (WLOS) — Saturday, June 27, marks the fifth and final day of the 2026 Carolina Brotherhood Ride, where 25 first responders from fire departments across North and South Carolina will cycle more than 120 miles to honor local heroes who have died in the line of duty.

Residents near Cedar Creek Lake are holding a town hall meeting on Sunday as they continue to push back against a proposed date center that would affect the area.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The City of Asheville awarded $855,000 in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds to Optimist Ventures, an accelerator for Asheville entrepreneurs affected by Hurricane Helene. "This award from the city allows us to extend our fund and accelerator program through 2028. Initial

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality recently announced it will invest $5 million to build 24 emergency power sources, known as microgrids, including in six counties in western North Carolina. Microgrids power essential equipment during a disaster and are often deployed when hurricanes cause outages,

Nestled on the third floor of the iconic, Douglas Ellington-designed Art Deco S&W Building. Finished in 1928, this Art Deco gathering place, with its great arched windows, featured terra cotta panels topped by a parapet of tiles, green and blue. The building, currently used for events, is broadly considered to be Ellin

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — A few scattered to isolated showers and thunderstorms are returning to North Carolina this Friday afternoon and evening, bringing typical summertime pop-up storm activity across much of the state. Coverage is expected to remain pretty isolated and hit or miss, meaning many locations will see