Wicked Weed of Asheville announced this week it was being sold to brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owns such brands as Budweiser, Corona, and Stella Artois. The company has been purchasing small craft breweries in recent years, creating "The High End" business unit for such brands. In a statement announcing the sale, Wicked Weed co-founder Walt Dickinson called it an "exciting time for the entire brewing team. Our ability to create a wide range of really well executed beers that are

The town of Canton is in the early stages of planning a new bicycle and pedestrian lane, with the hopes of revitalizing its downtown area.

The world’s game is coming to Asheville. The Asheville City Soccer Club kicks off its inaugural season tomorrow night, hosting the Georgia Revolution at Memorial Stadium.

Poor Jeremy had quite the night a few weeks back when a bat got into his apartment and was looking scary, flying around, and generally doing bat things. BPR gardening expert Alison Arnold thought Jeremy's misfortune was a great excuse to talk about the benefits of the little creatures.

Warren Wilson College has named its new president, and for the first time in the school's 123-year history, it will be lead by a woman. Dr. Lynn Morton will take over as president on July 1st. She comes from Queens University in Charlotte, where she has spent the last 26 years. She's currently the school's provost and vice president for academic affairs. She takes over at Warren Wilson from Steven Solnick, who is leaving Western North Carolina to become the head of the Calhoun School in New York

The August Great American Eclipse is in WNC's backyard! But to view such a spectacle safely, you'll need to take some special steps.

Mission Health’s explanation of why it’s ending deliveries at Angel Medical Center – because it loses more than $1-million a year doing so – isn’t sitting well with Macon County residents. Local leadership, including Franklin Mayor Bob Scott and County Commissioner Gary Shields, both pledged their support to locals in protest of Mission Health, and encouraged them to reach out to local government for help.

Congressional mid-term elections are 18 months away, but one challenger is getting into the race for Western North Carolina’s seat in the House of Representatives very early. Democrat Matt Coffay announced he will seek his party’s nomination for the 11 th district seat at a rally in Waynesville last month. Should Coffay win the nomination, he’d face three-term incumbent Republican Mark Meadows in the general election. BPR’s Matt Bush spoke with Smoky Mountain News reporter Corey Vaillancourt

Mission Health says its decision to stop delivering babies at Angel Medical Center in Macon County was made to keep the hospital open. Mission estimates around 400 children a year are currently born at the Franklin facility, roughly one per day. CEO Dr. Ronald Paulus says labor and delivery care at Angel Medical loses the hospital between $1 and $2-million per year, which he says puts all the other healthcare done at the facility in jeopardy. “We can’t let one program, even important, put all of

The decision to stop delivering babies at a Macon County hospital is proving to be an unpopular one in the mountains. Angel Medical Center in Franklin has been in the business of delivering babies for more than sixty years, but all of that is about to change come mid-summer. Mission Health, which runs the small community hospital, announced it will be discontinuing child labor and delivery services at the facility in July. The decision is unpopular with young people in Macon County. "It’s no