Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Where are our Elephants on Parade that sweetly adorned the wall that funnels the endless traffic from Interstate 240 ...

Asheville does seem to love a lingering empty lot, or an empty building. As I noted in a September column, we have a fair number of empty buildings that remain after Helene, some significantly damaged ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. Our mission at Asheville Watchdog is, of course, ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Where are our Elephants on Parade that sweetly adorned the wall that funnels the endless traffic from Interstate 240 ...

Except for the possible addition of slow-moving longshots before noon Friday, the campaign filing deadline, the fields are set for March 3 party-primary elections that may shift the political balance ...

At least three patients died and others were endangered at Mission Hospital in 2022 and 2023 following significant delays and lapses of care in the emergency department and other areas, according to a ...

Mission Health facilities in Asheville had more than 450 registered nurse vacancies in mid-October 2023, according to company staffing data obtained by Asheville Watchdog. The deficit occurred during ...

The floodwaters rose so fast at Thanh Bui’s house the morning of Sept. 27, she had to swim to safety. Bui, 55, and her 30-year-old son, Quintin Ho, had been up much of the night, monitoring the ...

Two independent chemistry experts say lead could be more widespread in Asheville’s drinking water following Tropical Storm Helene than the city has suggested and both call for more public education ...

The acute nursing shortage plaguing Asheville and Western North Carolina will reach “crisis” levels over the next decade, experts say, with one estimate projecting the region to be short nearly 2,000 ...