Asheville Watchdog

3 days ago | avlwatchdog.org | John Boyle

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:Question: I live in the Kenilworth area, on Beaucatcher Mountain. Normally by this time of year we’d be seeing bears out and about on the daily, be they singles, mamas and cubs, or juniors out without mama (but sticking together initially).

4 days ago | avlwatchdog.org | John Boyle

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. I do love the Asheville rumor mill. Partly because it always seems to rotate around and get hung up on an “old faithful” topic we all know and love: the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Most recently, I heard from a couple of folks who seemed convinced the City of Asheville is going to use federal disaster relief monies to overhaul the existing T.

1 week ago | avlwatchdog.org | John Boyle

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:Question: As your photo in a recent story shows, Novant has already been working on the Gold’s Gym property. So, will they be allowed to continue work on the facility and just not offer those imaging services, or do they need to abandon their project there? My answer: Right now, the building looks like an X-ray.

1 week ago | avlwatchdog.org | John Boyle

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Western North Carolina’s congressional representative and a state senator pushing a bold Helene-related recovery plan are at loggerheads over the bill’s potential effects, with both issuing barbed statements about the other’s take on the proposal. U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards says a state bill sponsored by Republican state Sen.

1 week ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. A 14-year-old died by suicide Saturday at a Weaverville residential treatment program for girls owned by the same company that ran a Transylvania County youth camp where a 12-year-old boy died in 2024. The death occurred at Asheville Academy, which serves 10- to 18-year olds, according to a Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office report.