During the COVID-19 pandemic, many chefs developed innovative alternatives to working for or owning a traditional restaurant, including launching ready-to-eat meals businesses. In the years since, the ...

In the years since COVID-19, the prepackaged meals industry has steadily expanded, with nearly 7% growth anticipated from 2024 to 2025, according to Fortune Business Insights. Several Asheville-area ...

Because of her continued quest to reunite residents, Wallace now holds the official title of artifact recovery technician (ART) with MountainTrue. She uses the nonprofit’s warehouse in Weaverville, ...

The National Park Service plans to conduct a prescribed burn in the Cataloochee Valley area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Tuesday, November 18, weather permitting. Fire managers intend to ...

In Buncombe County, CodeRED is also used to send Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) messages or “reverse 911” calls in the event of emergency evacuations. During this outage, requests ...

Elizabeth Bragg is the administrator of Helping At Risk Kids (HARK), which serves Buncombe County’s children and youths who are in court-ordered protective custody, aging out of the foster care system ...

Asheville organization Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Accion (CIMA) works to help families facing immigration ...

And conscious living, according to the late and great spiritual teacher Ram Dass, can be described as the following: ...

Sixteen years after Friends of the Ecusta Trail began as an all-volunteer effort, the nonprofit has entered a new phase. In ...

We are just about to complete our first deeply affordable apartment community in the West End Clingman Avenue neighborhood ...

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Western North Carolina residents marched Sunday afternoon in protest of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) operation in Charlotte over the weekend where at least 81 people were arrested.