An early conceptual rendering of the Nouveau Building and Vandre Hotel. The buildingâ??s look has not been approved by city planners and is subject to change. ASHEVILLE – Buncombe County commissioners passed a lodging tax increase Tuesday on a 4-3…

Liliya Kovalchuk gets help checking into her flight to Seattle and printing her boarding pass from U.S. Airways’ Bob Koenig at the Asheville Regional Airport on Thursday.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – For eight years, Mike Pelz relied on Asheville Regional…

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — It’s another one for the record books in Asheville. Tourism officials tell local media outlets that 2014 again set records for tourism in the area. Officials say an estimated 10 million visitors flocked to Asheville during 2014…

Christen May, a trainee from the GO Kitchen Ready Training Program, works at Blue Dream Curry House.(Photo: Bill Rhodes/Citizen-Times) ASHEVILLE – Duane Fernandes used to take it personally when job candidates failed to show for their stage — a working…

Democratic candidate for U.S. House Rick Bryson(Photo: Courtesy photo) BRYSON CITY – Rick Bryson says he’s running to represent most of Western North Carolina in the U.S. House so the region’s young people won’t have to do what he did:…

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ Sept. 1 meeting seems to cover all of the bases, from taxes to zoning to county services and a possible Vietnam memorial wall. Time capsules, peace and honored entrepreneurs First off, the board will…

Buy Photo Pedestrians walk past cracked and uneven sidewalk along Broadway between College and Walnut streets Wednesday. The city has painted some portions of the sidewalk to warn walkers.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE – From Interstate 240 south to near…

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Glen Luke Flanagan/The News Herald deaf seniors Ninety-five seniors from the Deaf Seniors of America visited Morganton on Wednesday to tour the Alder Springs Deaf and Blind Community. Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 7:40 pm | Updated: 9:03 pm, Wed…