Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Regarding propane prices, I think there are two main issues that consumers should be aware of, and companies should ...

It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about that later. This is the situation on local waterways ...

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 ...

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

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

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: As a resident of Haw Creek who also happens to live on New Haw Creek Road, we see very little progress on the “new ...

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 ...

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. // ...

Before urban renewal, Asheland Avenue was lined with mostly Black-owned single-family homes. After they were sold and demolished, the street became a strip of office buildings and commercial ...

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 ...