Asheville Watchdog’s 2023 series Selling Asheville was honored Wednesday with an Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism by ...

When historians write the story of the 2024 elections it necessarily will include an account of its anger, bigotry, threatened violence, and teeming hatred infusing nearly every level of the ballot.

Despite a soaking rain before a waterlogged, boisterous crowd, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz brought his self ...

While no one can predict the weather with 100 percent certainty, here’s a reliable forecast: As the climate warms, Asheville and western North Carolina will endure more frequent and intense rain ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies, and the real answers: Question: I recently received a summons for jury duty for the end of August. Prior to the pandemic, I was regularly summoned ...

While little has been humorous about the past two years for the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission, President ...

HCA North Carolina Division President Greg Lowe announced to Mission Health’s staff Monday that he will become the Asheville ...

If you really want to get folks riled up around here, don’t bother with politics or road diets or, Lord knows, the lack of dedicated pickleball courts. Just bring up tipping. Generally speaking, I’m a ...

Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is scheduled to speak in Asheville on Tuesday, Sept. 17, ...

The 8,000-acre Biltmore Estate has always been a working farm, with a variety of livestock and animals, including 41 goats that maintain the grounds as grazers. // Watchdog photo by Starr Sariego ...

As former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan was winding down his third term in office in 2017, he accepted a $124,871 retention bonus designed to keep key employees in their jobs. The bonus, offered ...

The legendary Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, the longest continuously serving speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, coined a phrase relevant to politicians from school boards to the White House: “All ...