In 1910, the father of American forestry got canned. Gifford Pinchot had developed his ideas in the woods of the Biltmore Estate, founded the Yale Forest School, and, in 1905, became the first chief ...

Among my favorite quotes citing the impact of money on elections were credited to two politicians who couldn’t have been more ...

Asheville attorney Robert Perry Tucker II was found guilty Wednesday of conspiring with two others to illegally take ownership of a former police officer’s Arden house through bogus court and legal ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I ran into a friend of mine downtown who told me that he had lost his parking card for the Harrah’s Cherokee ...

Costco, the wholesale retail giant that planned to bring a store to Asheville after decades of searching for a site, has ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I was recently at one of our brew pubs sipping on an IPA. It was a relatively slow time, so the bartender engaged me ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: It appears from what we hear that Montreat ...

More than a year after Mission Hospital announced that it planned to demolish its St. Joseph’s Hospital, work is set to begin to tear down the century-old facility. Permits have been filed and are ...

When the Asheville City Council approved a $100,000 project to build bike lanes on Patton Avenue and College Street in October 2023, it was presented as a “quick-build, low-cost, high-value bicycle ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation issued an uncharacteristically vehement statement Thursday defending itself after retail giant Costco withdrew its application for a new store in Enka, ...

Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m pretty sure my colleague, photojournalist Katie Linsky Shaw, is trying to kill me. Back in November, Katie and I had the bright idea to go paddling on the ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I have been thinking about this issue for a long time, and I have come to the conclusion that the best location for ...