Consider the dead tree. To the living things of the forest, and to the environmentalists who love them, a dead tree is critical infrastructure. A standing one — a snag — may house beetle larvae, which ...

A report from the independent monitor tasked with supervising Mission Hospital has found two areas of “potential ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: You should do a story on the Broadmoor Golf Course and how they got back open so quick after Helene. That place is ...

The fourth floor of the new apartment building on Long Shoals Road is designed like the upper levels of countless other rental blocks in Buncombe County, the state, and most of the nation: A staircase ...

Democratic congressional candidate Jamie Ager outraised U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards by a nearly 9-to-1 margin in the second ...

Forget about the hipster bars in West Asheville or the upscale places downtown. There’s a new local hot spot that puts them to shame. Not only can you quaff a very reasonably priced craft ale while ...

The University of North Carolina-Asheville should not build a stadium atop the wooded land south of its main campus, ...

Laura Garcia is pictured in front of her mobile home in the cooperative Mahetsi community in the Emma neighborhood northwest of downtown Asheville. // Watchdog photo by Starr Sariego Owning the land ...

Sandra Smith has a name for the towering new homes squeezed onto tiny lots in Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods: “Slim-talls.” She pointed out one after another on a recent tour through her ...

As Asheville Watchdog’s four-part series has shown, young Black people are leaving the city for better opportunities, and residents who remain are fragmented, lacking the cohesion that once thriving ...

Asheville Watchdog has won three awards, including first-place honors for investigative reporting and news feature reporting, in the North Carolina Press Association’s 2025-2026 journalism awards, the ...

The newspaper industry has weathered its fair share of tough times over the past decade or two, but I found a glimmer of hope on Richmond Avenue in West Asheville: Isabel Arcos, age 8. Last October, ...