Recreation Park Pool in Asheville was badly damaged during Tropical Storm Helene and is currently empty, except for a healthy crop of weeds. The city is looking at rebuilding a pool but has not ...

Monday’s NC-11 vote will do more than determine who replaces Chuck Edwards on the Republican ticket. Depending on whom ...

Monday’s NC-11 vote will do more than determine who replaces Chuck Edwards on the Republican ticket. Depending on whom district Republicans select, the decision could also reshape western North ...

I’m no developer, but the recent news about an Atlanta outfit proposing 524 apartments on Swannanoa River Road struck me as a ...

At a Buncombe County Commission workshop in April, Asheville City Schools Superintendent Maggie Fehrman asked for an increase ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Has anyone asked you about those weird ...

This is another of The Watchdog’s continuing series taking a detailed look at how our region’s major candidates are raising ...

In an early morning social media post, western North Carolina congressman Chuck Edwards announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for re-election. This story will be updated. Shortly after the ...

William Penn Adair Rogers (1879-1935), universally known as Will Rogers, was a humorist, newspaper columnist, and entertainer. // Watchdog photo illustration based on photo from Will Rogers Memorial ...

Tony Rickman, the Right of Way agent for the NCDOT's Division 13, which includes Buncombe County, talks to residents about the I-26 Connector at an April 24 public meeting about the project. // ...

The man who gained infamy in Asheville for the brutal stabbing death of a pet dog in Weaver Park has himself become the ...

I’m not saying a new Sheetz gas station is going to win the Pritzker Architectural Prize or become a cherished icon of Tunnel Road’s, ahem, skyline. But it sure would beat the current Mountaineer Inn.