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Hendersonville City Council Members invite residents and community members to join them at a series of ‘Council Conversation’ meetings. These informal gatherings allow the public to interact with their local elected officials by asking questions, voicing concerns, and working together toward solutions. Each meeting wil

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Nearly 1,000 Duke Energy customers in the Leicester area were without power Monday afternoon after a vehicle damaged utility equipment, according to the company. Duke Energy reported 976 customers without power as of Monday afternoon. The outage was listed in the Leicester area, with an..

CANTON, N.C. (WLOS) — Two people are dead following a house fire that happened off Henson Cove Road on Friday, Aug. 14. The deceased victims were identified Monday as 72-year-old Beth Sain and 73-year-old Richard Queen. The Haywood County Sheriff’s Office and Center Pigeon Fire Department released a joint...

She portrayed herself as a housing advocate, blessed for the opportunity to help those in need. Prosecutors say she preyed on elderly and vulnerable victims who lost their homes and sometimes generations of wealth. Lisa Roberts-Allen, a central figure in Asheville Watchdog’s investigative series, Equity Erased, is on t

The Southern Municipal Finance Society will hold its 2026 conference in downtown Asheville from Sept. 23 through 25. The three-day gathering will take place at the Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel. Disaster recovery will anchor the conference program, alongside rebuilding and resilience. Those three subjects define

Schnabel Engineering presented an estimated construction cost of $158 million. An independent estimate was about $174 million.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Hot and humid weather will stick around across Western North Carolina this week, with another round of thunderstorms possible Monday afternoon and evening. The National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg office said heat index values could again climb into the triple digits Monday and

NORTH CAROLINA — Monday’s weather could turn rough for the Western Carolinas, with a risk for severe storms coming in at a Level 2 out of 5. Damaging wind is again the greatest threat with any storms that form, and the overall threat is expected to be higher from mid-afternoon through the evening hours.

Employees at the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill kept calling Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers one day in March 2023. A mysterious meeting had been scheduled that afternoon. Did he know why?. Then, the mill’s security team contacted the Canton Police Department. They may want to station officers around town, security ominously...

This week’s episode features two segments. First up, you’ll hear Jeremy and Sea speak about the upcoming G20 Financial Track gathering of Finance Ministers and Central Bankers happening in Asheville at the end of August this year. We speak about the G20, neoliberalism, and some of the organizing happening locally. More