In early March, John Boyle broke the news that Costco, after decades of looking in the area (and breathless anticipation among the retailer’s devotees), had submitted plans for a store to be built in ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Sign up for free Watchdog news alerts straight to your inbox. Yes! Sign me up! Question: We recently attempted to go on a ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Where are our Elephants on Parade that sweetly adorned the wall that funnels the endless traffic from Interstate 240 ...

Asheville does seem to love a lingering empty lot, or an empty building. As I noted in a September column, we have a fair number of empty buildings that remain after Helene, some significantly damaged ...

Did Asheville have more important problems, issues and big news going on this year than the prospect of Costco finally coming to town? Absolutely. We live in a town still rebuilding after Helene, and ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the ...

Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. Our mission at Asheville Watchdog is, of course, ...

Fed-up merchants describe the city’s downtown district as nearly lawless. People sleep and do drugs in doorways, barge into businesses yelling, brazenly shoplift, and frighten customers and employees.

A web of undulating asphalt paths will be part of Beacon Park, an 8.5-acre complex with climbing walls, a mile-long walking trail, a playground, and an event lawn with a capacity of 4,000. // Watchdog ...

The U.S. Forest Service used incomplete, inconsistent and misleading data to justify a dramatic expansion of logging in western North Carolina’s national forests over the coming decades, according to ...

Dozens of powerful, fast-moving landslides carved deep scars into the hills and valleys around Buncombe County amid the fury of Tropical Storm Helene, sweeping away lives, destroying or damaging ...