The North Carolina Forest Service has issued a statewide burn ban while three substantial, uncontained wildfires prompt ...

Eight of Buncombe County's parks remain closed, with park officials reporting no anticipated reopening date. The parks are ...

Nearly six months since Helene, it's not just Asheville and Buncombe County struggling to get the funding necessary to ...

Though the U.S. Forest Service announced the containment of most NC National Forest wildfires, serious fire risks caused by the weather remain.

Multiple Buncombe County crews are battling a 15-acre wildfire in the Broad River community along N.C. 9 on Feb. 28, officials said. Downed power lines appear to have started the fire, which was ...

Buncombe County accepted an $8.4 interest-free loan offered ... In December, state lawmakers appropriated $100 million for the cashflow loan program. In February, the North Carolina Department of ...

More than five months after Helene, nearly 1,800 households continue to shelter in hotel rooms paid for by FEMA. Many are set to check out on March 7.

according to data presented to the Buncombe County Commissioners Feb. 18. In North Carolina, thousands of households have left the program since early January. Around 5,700 in North Carolina were ...

Tyrone Eugene Sitton, also known as “Dirty,” 46, of Asheville, has been sentenced to 151 months in prison, followed by three ...

In a move that will advance affordable housing, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved entering negotiations for a Memorandum of Understanding with Harmony Housing during its regular ...

TWO MEN PLEAD A woman has been sentenced to prison after a string of barn fires in Buncombe County, North Carolina.The fires were set early in the morning on Nov. 3, 2021, in the Leicester ...

Multiple Buncombe County crews are battling a 15-acre wildfire in the Broad River community along N.C. 9 on Feb. 28, officials said. Downed power lines appear to have started the fire, which was ...