Long awaited renovations to the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville would 'totally transform' the building, but come with a hefty price tag - $100 million. The designs for those changes were unveiled Wednesday evening at the facility.

A proposed charter school in the city of Asheville cleared a major hurdle this week . On Monday, the North Carolina Charter School Advisory Board recommended that PEAK Academy open in August of 2021. The proposed charter school wants to focus on closing the achievement gap with African American and low-income students.

Boston, Chicago, Houston and Austin will soon be a non-stop plane ride away from Asheville. The budget airline Allegiant is adding the four cities to its service from the Asheville Regional airport .

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are hoping to expand their gaming operations outside North Carolina . Eastern Band Principal Chief Richard Sneed says the tribe is looking to build a casino in Virginia. The Bristol-based facility would be part of a new development already in the works on the property. “The Cherokees - specifically in Washington County where Bristol is located - it is historic Cherokee aboriginal land. So we felt like all of the boxes were checked for us to at least put our

David Zack, the current police chief of Cheektowaga, New York, will be the next police chief for the city of Asheville. City manager Debra Campbell made the announcement via e-mail Monday afternoon.

Tourists versus locals. It’s one of the defining conflicts at the heart of Asheville. It’s also playing out in how the city chooses to preserve and retell the history of its shrinking black community.

Officials from the city of Asheville and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians celebrated the renaming of the Asheville Civic Center as the Harrah’s Cherokee Center - Asheville at an event Friday afternoon. The name change officially took place ten days prior on January 1st.

Drivers on Interstate 40 near the Tennessee border can expect delays into spring. Some of Interstate 40 from Haywood County to the Tennessee border will be moved down to two lanes as the state department of transportation makes various upgrades to the road says spokesperson David Uchiyama. “Folks should plan for delays in their travel plans,” says Uchiyama. He adds depending on your destination you might considered a detour in Tennessee: “It may be wise to go up to Kingsport on I-81 and down I

Last week, sixteen different international United Methodist groups came together to announce a proposal for a split over LGBTQ rights. BPR talked to Methodist leaders in Western North Carolina about what this means for a region with deep ties to the church. But at one church in Haywood County, this decision has already been made. People are still finding their seats as the 8:40am service at Waynesville First United Methodist Church starts. The contemporary praise band starts kicks off the

Asheville’s public bus system rolled out some major changes this week.