Sometimes, 94 years really isn’t enough living. That’s how long Asheville businessman, local columnist and cowboy-hat wearing amateur historian Jerry Sternberg lived before dying on Christmas Day.

Before we get to today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers, allow me to wish you a happy 2025. This might well be a doozy of a year, but let’s go into it with a positive ...

This column wraps up our annual “year in review” series by Asheville Watchdog journalists. So far you’ve heard from: Now it’s ...

Because the North Fork Reservoir was so murky following Tropical Storm Helene, Asheville Water Resources hired a contractor to conduct three rounds of in-reservoir treatment with aluminum sulfate and ...

Ingles lost power in 80 of its 198 stores from Tropical Storm Helene, and all stores were unable to process credit or debit ...

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” – Joseph Goebbels, January 12, 1941 If I were to write a headline over a story summarizing the essence ...

As 2024 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events ...