The third of four parts Sandra Smith has a name for the towering new homes squeezed onto tiny lots in Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods: “Slim-talls.” She pointed out one after another on a ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Driving Interstate 40 at the Tennessee line where reconstruction is underway, there are several dozen huge steel ...

In June, the University of North Carolina Asheville announced a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of wooded campus, but put the plan on pause in August. // ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What percentage of students in the ...

I really do love a great outdoor music venue. I also really do love not living right next to a great outdoor music venue. In Fletcher where I live, on summer nights we can hear the band at the Auction ...

The second of four parts The Happy Hour crowd on South Slope pops into the breweries and restaurants that have helped land ...

Eric Penland Jr., a quadriplegic patient whose nearly four-year stay at Mission Hospital became the subject of a legal battle ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: As a resident of Haw Creek who also happens to live on New Haw Creek Road, we see very little progress on the “new ...

A sign at a February rally on Pack Square shows support for Justice Allison Riggs, whose election was unsuccessfully challenged by her Republican opponent. // Watchdog photo by Starr Sariego Although ...

I really don’t enjoy busting the chops of Ingles Markets, but they just keep stirring the wrath of readers, and sometimes me. Most recently, in September, Ingles finally announced and submitted plans ...