Over an hour later, police said due to the protests, the Montford Avenue Bridge has been closed. This comes after Asheville police released a statement on Friday giving the department's full support ...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric on Saturday issued state of emergency decrees for two regions in the center and south of the country due to the threat of raging wildfires. Speaking at a press ...

HUD announced Asheville would receive $225 million in federal recovery dollars for Helene. Now, the city must create an ...

Buncombe County’s unemployment rate was 6.0% in December 2024, according to data released by the North Carolina Department of ...

Americans are likely to continue moving to areas with risky climates, even as other places are abandoned, and more resilient ...

"Using our tax dollars to weaken codes and regulations seems foolish, doesn’t it? If we don’t fix this, Mother Nature and the insurance industry will do it for us!" ...

Months of neglect from federal officials threatened to combine the worst elements of two recent major disasters. Fortunately, residents in western North Carolina, a region ravaged by Hurricane Helene ...

Flood ordinance updates keep the city in compliance with insurance guidelines and staff revisions to the housing plan keep zoning as is in legacy neighborhoods.

The Asheville Police Department is now the first in the nation to receive a first-of-its-kind FAA waiver for drone operations ...

As communities began cleanup efforts in the area, many expressed concerns that the debris left behind was producing a foul odor and speculated that it was contaminated with chemicals and other ...

In North Carolina, FEMA seemed completely incapable of dealing with the unique and dangerous mountainous terrain that many ...

As Helene's destructive wrath descended on the Southeast, some residents say they never got the warnings they needed to take ...