This still image from a video in the new Asheville branding campaign shows the weekly downtown drum circle in Pritchard Park.(Photo: Special to the Citizen-Times) ASHEVILLE – Convention and Visitor’s Bureau officials have adopted a new Asheville motto to lure…

July 30, 2015 13:16 GMT Eds: Recasts short headline. With AP Photos. By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It is, for some well-heeled foreign visitors, the ultimate African experience: the thrill of hunting a lion, one of the…

Vacation selfie: Krystle Montanez, husband Joel Montanez and baby daughter, Kailina. Krystle, event sales coordinator for the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort Spa, used most of her vacation time this year to get Kailina off to a good start following…

Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series in which local experts were asked: “What would it take to solve the Asheville area’s affordable housing problem?” Asheville’s affordable housing problem is rooted in our lack of affordable land for…

Buy Photo Urban Outfitters opened in 2009, around the same time as the locally owned Spiritex store.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE – When Marylou Marsh-Sanders opened a clothing store in downtown Asheville six years ago, all eyes were on her…

With roots firmly planted in Western North Carolina, Bryson feels he is best qualified to be a voice for its people. Congressman Mark Meadows, R-Cashiers, has represented the district since being elected in 2013, but Bryson — who will be…

Cars pack the Rankin Avenue parking garage in downtown Asheville.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – Concerns over a certain smell coming from city parking garages have thrown a wrench in a $390,000 contract for a private company to help with municipal…

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Driftwood Ales is the latest craft brewery to drift into Boynton Beach and throw its independent mug into the mix. The brewery is scheduled to open in September at 2901 Commerce Park Road, further making Boynton Beach a destination for…