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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - This isn’t your typical Biltmore photo shoot! A black bear wandered onto the lawn in the middle of a proposal session. Photographer Katie Richard said she was at the Biltmore Estate on Saturday morning when she spotted the bear behind the couple. She said it casually strolled across the

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Asheville leaders have approved the sale of city-owned property on Oak Hill Drive to make way for new affordable townhomes. During an Asheville City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 23, councilmembers approved a resolution authorizing the city manager to sell the property to Oak Hill, LLC for t

The number of ER visits for opioid overdoses fell by nearly half from 2023 to 2025 — from 503 to 258 — coinciding with the rollout of addiction programs funded by the opioid lawsuit settlement. Buncombe County will get a windfall of more than $30 million from the...

Buncombe County Parks & Recreation is seeking feedback on design options for the new Charles D. Owen Park. The brief Redesigning Owen Park survey offers a chance to review and reflect on two concepts for the redesign of the park, which were inspired by input from the community. The online...

The Ecusta Trail will close twice for a month later this year to allow for work on neighboring U.S. 64, with the first closure on July 6 at the White Pine Drive intersection. During the closure, a roundabout will be constructed along U.S. 64 and the trail will be raised six feet in elevation. The project — a partnershi

Winery and cidery Botanist & Barrel has won two awards in Cidercraft Magazine in the natural cider category — a nod to its locally sourced ingredients. “To have two ciders recognized in the Natural Cider category means a lot to us,” said co-founder Lyndon Smith. “We want people to understand that Southern cider can sta

UNC Health, the University of North Carolina’s hospital system, has applied for permission to open a 92-bed hospital near downtown Asheville. The state-owned nonprofit health provider, which already has a management agreement with UNCHealth Pardee in Henderson County, made the request to the North Carolina Department o

Asheville Police Department investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying an armed robber who held up a Speedway convenience store early Thursday morning on June 11. When officers responded to the store shortly before 8 a.m., an employee told officers that a man wearing a mask and a...

A new program will bring solar-powered microgrid setups to disaster-impacted areas in Western North Carolina to help local communities get off-grid power during storms. Called Beehives, they run on up to 100 kilowatt hours of energy — enough to power a large building for up to 10 hours in the event of a blackout.

Proving the adage no good deed goes unpunished, Hendersonville will face a putative reduction in its share of sales tax revenue as a fallout for not raising property taxes. Hendersonville will get $600,000 less in sales tax next year due to city council’s decision to hold the line on property taxes. Meanwhile, Henderso