ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Some leaders in Asheville think the city should spend some of its hotel room tax proceeds to pay for police or other services. But many hotel owners and state lawmakers think the money is better spent…

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Every few years, an editorial in the Citizen-Times is written, bemoaning the fact the hotel industry does not fairly “contribute” to the area economy, often focused on the occupancy tax that is used primarily to promote Asheville as a leisure…

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Cyclists pass a farm during the Cycle to Farm bike tour last year, which takes riders on a 62-mile tour to visit several Western North Carolina farms. The fourth annual Cycle to Farm is July 18.(Photo: Leah Elizabeth/Special to the…

As the city of Asheville finds its way onto list after national list of best places to live, work, retire, panhande, etc., the task of local land conservationists becomes more pressing. Groups like the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — founded…

ASHEVILLE – Over the last 118 years, Pack Square has evolved into a bustling urban center with buildings by famous architects and whirring car traffic, but underground, something of its horse-and-buggy days remained, waiting to be discovered. In March, a…

Last time the Convention and Visitors Bureau created new print and video images, they corresponded to the “Asheville’s calling” tagline.(Photo: Special to Citizen-Times) ASHEVILLE – This week’s onslaught of cameras aren’t working for some L.A. studio; they’re working for us.…

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