Graham Sturgis
Transportation officials say roadwork will continue in the Hickory Nut Gorge area through at least 2028. Residents say they’re already fatigued from living in a seemingly endless construction zone.
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The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
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In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
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Superintendent Rob Jackson made the announcement at the close of a celebratory end-of-school-year board meeting, bringing full circle a career that began in Buncombe County Schools in 1992. -
The art is the latest addition to the Asheville Black Cultural and Heritage Trail. -
Western Carolina University in Jackson County is one of several colleges that the State Board of Elections rejected as an early voting site in the March primary. -
What you need to know from the June 2 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting.
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The funding will support emergency repairs at 207 sites across Buncombe, including farms, businesses, homes and public land. -
The Asheville Recovers Together grant program will accept applications from June 15 to July 14.
