World of Games: 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays, Stephens-Lee Community Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave., Asheville. For age 8 and older. Grab a controller and best your opponent on the Xbox or PS5. Board ...

Who will be the best linebacker in Western North Carolina during the 2025 NCHSAA and NCISAA high school football season? You get to decide. The Citizen Times and Times-News picked the top names among ...

Lance Cpl. Kevin Rumley, who now directs Buncombe County's Veteran's Treatment Court, was nearly killed in 2004 by a targeted explosive on the Syrian border in Iraq. 20 years later, he testified in ...

E. coli rates in areas of the French Broad River have remained similar to previous years, despite Tropical Storm Helene. As the summer proceeds, experts have suggested swimmers, tubers and paddlers ...

The Mountain Athletic Conference is back for 2025. After realignment shrunk the conference from seven teams to six, there's an extra week of exciting nonconference games before the schools resume ...

War has gone on for many years and leaves scars that don't heal. Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Iran wars are ...

SNAP is first line of defense against hunger for millions of North Carolinians. If the Senate passes the budget bill cuts ...

NC state and local law enforcement arrested Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran June 27 under a felony and three misdemeanor ...

How long will our democracy last? Stable governments tend to live a century, as wealth accumulates and makes its way from ...

The new trail to Enloe Cemetery near Mingus Mill helps uncover the long-overlooked legacy of the Great Smoky Mountains’ Black ...

Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge from Haywood County in North Carolina and Cocke County in Tennessee reopened Jun ...

As a new variant that causes 'razor blade throat' spreads, the FDA updates vaccine warnings to include information on heart ...