As part of a long-term planning effort, the Asheville school board is considering a $243,950 facility study for the district.

Even as North Carolina’s institutions of higher learning face financial headwinds, the UNC Board of Governors gave the ...

ASHEVILLE - Trailblazing civil rights attorney and Asheville native James "Fergie" Ferguson died the morning of July 21, his ...

In the heart of UNC Asheville’s South Campus woods, 45 acres of forest are now at the center of one of the region's most ...

James Ferguson II, a pioneering Charlotte civil rights attorney whose landmark cases helped desegregate schools nationwide, died Monday at 82. An Asheville native, he co-founded North Carolina’s first ...

In 1970, he successfully sued Asheville City Schools for failing to desegregate, 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education officially ended public school segregation.

In 1970, he successfully sued Asheville City Schools for failing to desegregate, 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education officially ended public school segregation.