When the history of the 2026 midterm election is written, the story of the Republican Party’s attempt to bend the result in ...

Buncombe County’s recently completed tax reassessment has hit residences with far higher valuation increases by percentage than commercial properties and will likely lead to homeowners carrying a ...

The Trump super PAC created to help Republicans retain the majority in the U.S. House has canceled more than $1 million in ...

At Carrier Park, the jungle gym is hard to spot these days, mainly because an actual jungle surrounds it. I suppose if you’re a botanist, the park would be a source of fascination these days, as the ...

Hopes were high in 2014, when Emily Sutton Dezio, fellow Enka-Candler residents, and representatives of Buncombe County and the Enka Commerce Park came together with a vision to create a greenway ...

First, let’s do the numbers. In this column a week ago, I wrote of clues in the days before in-person voting that were “hinting” at the potential for a sweeping Democratic victory in these midterm ...

Mission Hospital owner HCA is claiming that the attorney general does not have the constitutional authority to sue them for violating what they describe as a contractual dispute. // Watchdog photo by ...

Republican congressional candidate Jennifer Balkcom, right, appears with her mother, Kathy Ward-King, in a campaign ad that ...

Asheville Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley acknowledged that she rents an apartment near downtown Asheville and did so even before she was appointed to fill a vacant seat on council in 2020. But her ...

In 2018, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office waded into the contentious sale of the nonprofit Mission Hospital to healthcare giant HCA. The office had concerns about the sale. Eager to get ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Does anyone know why some Montreat addresses show up as Black Mountain on Google Maps, Amazon, Airbnb, etc? Montreat ...