In 2025, visitors are invited to celebrate the Blue Ridge Mountain area’s “new openings and reopenings” wrote the Times’ Shayla Martin.

Luis Martinez talks about his nostalgia for one of Oaxaca's biggest comfort foods: tlayudas. Find them inside Asheville, North Carolina's quirkiest bar.

Ski resorts reported minimal damages from Tropical Storm Helene and one freshly revamped resort has reopened after being closed since 2023. Here's where you can ski in WNC as the storm eases up: Where: 940 Ski Mountain Road, Blowing Rock in Watauga County. About a two-hour drive northeast from Asheville.

As the chill and snow of a winter storm blanketed western North Carolina, blowtorch heat is white-hot on FEMA and Administrator Deanne Criswell.

Asheville Christian Academy in North Carolina has been slapped with a civil lawsuit alleging negligence regarding the former dean of spiritual formation allegedly engaging in sexual misconduct with a student.

Twenty-eight percent of the state’s homeowners and renters continue to be cost-burdened by their rents and mortgage payments, according to the North Carolina Housing Coalition’s 2025 County Profile that was released Thursday.

Following a challenging financial year, Kohl's has announced the closure of dozens of stores. Here's what to know about N.C., Southern closures.

Explore Asheville is launching a new commercial featuring the song "Carolina" to beckon people to WNC, said Explore Asheville in a press release.

Noticing fewer visits from local bears, a reader asks how Western North Carolina's bears were impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.

The Guilford County Sheriff's Office announced that a child died following a sledding accident in Whitsett, North Carolina. At 9:12 a.m. Saturday, deputies responded to a 911 call on Golf House Road West regarding a water rescue.

Western North Carolina received good news Tuesday in its struggle to recover from the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Gov. Josh Stein and HUD Secretary Adrianne Todman announced the region will receive two Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) awards totaling $1.

North Carolina governments are receiving over $1.65 billion in federal block grant money to help address historic levels of damage caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.