A celebrated classical/avant-garde musician now based in Asheville, Min Xiao-Fen is a master of the pipa, a traditional ...

Yancey County is suing to recoup the land it handed over last year to a mysteriously dormant solar energy company. Florida-based Paradigm Energy and Storage promised to build a headquarters and ...

Watkins is hardly alone in finding purpose in an unexpected career. Betty Baker and Charlotte Snelson are also among the ...

From left, Laurie Carter Rose and Jeff Benninghofen star in N.C. Stage Company's production of Misery. Photo courtesy of N.C.

Clockwise from top right, Timothy B. Tyson and Mary D. Williams. Tyson Susan Evans; Williams Anthony Ragland A revered vocalist who headlined two Newport Jazz Festivals and sold millions of records, ...

Workers through the Bridging Together program have built 34 private bridges in WNC to replace those destroyed in Tropical Storm Helene — and they still have about two years of work ahead of them.

Press release from Duke Energy: BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. – Duke Energy teams earned six awards at the International Lineman’s Rodeo, one of the world’s premier lineworker competitions, held Oct. 17 in ...

Veterans of Raleigh’s Hopscotch Music Festival, Wagging is well on its way to being Asheville’s next great band. Led by the ...

For its ninth annual iteration, the two-day, self-guided Beaverdam Studio Tour spotlights 17 artists from the Beaverdam Valley who are opening their work spaces to the public, as well as seven guest ...

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a letter of support at its Oct. 20 meeting for a Fairview Holiday Parade to take place Saturday, Dec. 12, on U.S. Highway 74, also known ...

In December 2023, the attorney general’s office did just that. Brought by then Attorney General Josh Stein, now governor, and continued under Attorney General Jeff Jackson, it accuses HCA and Mission ...

Xpress heads to Wall Street to speak with some of the women who own and operate shops along the short downtown Asheville corridor. These merchants say the block’s fresh murals, updated signage, pop-up ...