Local News

Asheville -- July 24, 2023: Asheville Police Department Officers were called to Ascot Point Circle in south Asheville at 10:54 AM Friday for a reported kidnapping at gunpoint.

Buncombe County -- July 24, 2023: The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate a missing man from the Candler area of Buncombe County.

Raleigh -- July 21, 2023: For Immediate Release Friday, July 21, 2023: N.C. TOMATO GROWERS ASSOCIATIONThe N.C. Tomato Growers Association will conduct an August referendum on continuing the $20 per acre assessment on harvested commercial tomatoes. 

Buncombe County -- July 20, 2023: Buncombe County Press Release: More Buncombe County households will get access to high-speed internet thanks to a third installment of grant funding.

Asheville -- July 20, 2023: City of Asheville Government Press Release: As part of these efforts, the City will be implementing a new ordinance, effective August 1, 2023, that prohibits the use of plastic bags for brush and leaf collection.

Buncombe County -- Buncombe County Government: Tuesday, July 18, 2023, is a code ORANGE air quality action day for the valleys and ridge tops of Asheville and Buncombe County.

Rutherford County -- July 17, 2023: At approximately 8 a.m., July 10, 2023, a Cleveland County sheriff's deputy investigating a suspicious vehicle was ambushed on Curt Ledford Road by a man who attacked him with a pipe.

Asheville -- July 15, 2023:  Officers with the Asheville Police Department were called to Mission Hospital around 10:00 PM Friday in response to a report of a person suffering from a gunshot wound.

Asheville -- July 15, 2023: Officers from the Asheville Police Department Thursday, arrived shortly after the Asheville Fire Department and emergency medical services personnel at the scene of a woman who was burning along the 100 block of New Leicester Highway.