Asheville NC

The Asheville Train Show, hosted by WNC Model Railroaders, invites model train collectors, hobbyists and vendors from across the region to the WNC Agricultural Center for a fun and informative expo. The event features extensive vendor tables, operating model train layouts and a wide variety of scales, accessories and...

While our nation recently observed groundhog day, here in WNC, we are observing a more disturbing groundhog day: once again, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made an Immediate Jeopardy finding for Mission Hospital. Immediate Jeopardy is defined as “A situation in which the provider’s...

Here’s one nude model painting class you can bring the whole family to: a step-by-step painting class of WNC Nature Center’s beloved Cotswold sheep Martin, who turns 11 this month. Called “Gentle Giants,” Cotswold sheep are one of the largest breeds from England’s Cotswold hills. Noted for their...

Approaching the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in downtown Asheville last Wednesday evening, a mob scene had overtaken the sidewalks surrounding the venue. The entry line stretched down the hill on Flint Street, across the Interstate 240 overpass and around the Asheville Skatepark on Cherry Street. Thousands of joyous...

Sixth-grade students at Joe P. Eblen Intermediate School got hands on with planetary science by exploring a massive, detailed floor map of Mars last month. Students measured elevation, latitude and longitude and scale. They also located historic Mars rover landing sites. “There’s something powerful about getting...

MARION, N.C. (WBTV) - A convicted felon will spend the next 30 years at least in prison after he walked away from a prison work release site, kidnapped a woman, and forced her to drive him to another county, court officials said. Billy Lee Smith, while on work release from...

Blue Ridge Regional Hospital (BRRH) announced the retirement of Mark Thomas, a longtime member of the Facilities Department, following a distinguished 19-year career. Since joining the hospital in 2007, Thomas has played a vital role in maintaining the infrastructure and safety of the facility, ensuring a seamless...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — A warming trend is expected to continue across Western North Carolina through the end of the workweek, with near-record high temperatures possible Friday, according to the US National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg. Forecasters say a warm air mass moving in from the south will...

Nearly a century ago, a sparsely populated farming and railroad community in the Appalachian Mountains was changed forever, when Charles D. Owen II relocated his family’s textile mill from New Bedford, Massachusetts to Swannanoa. At one-million-square-feet, Beacon Manufacturing soon became the center of a thriving...

Buncombe County is taking its first formal step toward seeking voter approval on millions of dollars in new borrowing. That journey began with a letter to the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, which the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved Tuesday night. In that document,...