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Employees at the Boone Starbucks voted 33-2 on Saturday to form a union. According to barista Grace Marvell, the vote allows the 48 workers to negotiate for better working hours and a higher hourly wage.

Grant Edward Olson Jr., of Asheville, North Carolina, is also accused of intimidating Sellers for exercising his civil rights as an attorney, television commentator and lobbyist. Authorities say Olson sent dozens of messages to Sellers on Instagram that included racial slurs and indications that Olson was armed.

The 75-foot tall obelisk was dismantled before the Court of Appeals told the city and Buncombe County in June to stop the demolition while appeals were heard.

HCA Healthcare and Copestone, a mental health service that is part of Mission Health, were both cited for failing to ensure that respirator masks such as N-95 masks were fit-tested or tracking fit-testing in October.

As local governments across the country puzzle over how to eliminate their use of electricity generated by fossil fuels, the North Carolina town of Boone has met that goal.

For many vaccinated people, images of crowded emergency rooms have invoked anger. Some would like to see people who have been vaccinated and wearing masks get priority medical treatment at hospitals. They say just as hospitals routinely triage patients, why not include vaccination status as one of the factors in that triage?

A regular water quality review has environmental advocates pushing the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality on standards for E. Coli, PFAS, and 1,4 Dioxane.

Town Branch, also called 鈥淣asty Branch,鈥� is the longest creek that flows through Asheville. It鈥檚 also the most polluted. Environmentalists and residents...

An appeals court in North Carolina has denied an emergency motion to halt the ongoing demolition of a 75-foot-tall Confederate monument in downtown Asheville.

Sgt. Chris Ward and K-9 Deputy Logan Fox were killed during a welfare check last week. On Thursday, family members and those who worked with them remembered them as heroes who dedicated their lives to serving North Carolina's Watauga County community.

Authorities say two North Carolina sheriff鈥檚 deputies were killed and three other people including a suspected gunman were found dead after a lengthy standoff.

Asheville, N.C. is becoming known as a "safe city" when it comes to climate change. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, Buncombe County鈥檚 population rose more than 10% from 2010-2019. That's more than double the state鈥檚 population growth rate and nearly 10 times the national percentage.