In West Asheville, amid the distant clatter of chainsaws cutting through downed trees, a line gathered at BJ's Food Mart for their 9 a.m. opening. When the cash only gas station opened, screams ...

ASHEVILLE - As the death toll from Tropical Storm Helene continued to rise Sept. 30 — now at 40 in Buncombe County — the first signs of relief began, where the county was able to set up four ...

On the Bleachery Boulevard Bridge, Liana and Max Tsaruk, Asheville residents who live off of New Leicester Road on the other side of town, had traveled to the Walmart in the early afternoon Sept. 29.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — King Sison has responded to natural disasters in Indonesia, Libya and Brazil. He’s delivered clean water amid armed violence and collapsed infrastructure and immense poverty ...

Asheville, N.C., seemed like an ideal place to escape the worst effects of global warming. In recent years, media outlets and real estate agents named the city a “climate haven” because of its ...

Tropical storm Helene caused 'catastrophic' damage to Asheville’s water treatment and distribution system, cutting off at least 70% of the city’s drinking water supply.

A concrete fusegate from North Fork Water Treatment Plant's auxiliary spillway, which tips and displaces to help increase reservoir storage during large flood events, can be seen washed out at the ...

Brandi Hayes, 37, stood in a long, snaking line of people outside the Ingles Markets grocery store on Haywood Road in West Asheville Sept. 29 hoping to buy water, bread and other essential food items.

Broadcast on 99.9 KISS Country FM, the longtime Asheville-based show offered up-to-date information on road closures and aid stations in the news desert caused by the lack of cell service and ...

Non-potable water has returned to a significant portion of Asheville's system, though some at higher elevations are still without.

Holcombe, who was Asheville’s water resources director from 1993-97, details how the region’s water has driven growth and has been the crux of the city’s most heated political fights since ...

Asheville water officials said Tuesday that outages, which they estimated affected 50,000 to 100,000 customers across the region, had dropped “significantly” over the previous two days.