Cities do not reinvent themselves. It takes many people, dedicated people. Fortunately, Asheville has had such people. There was a time, not that many years ago, when downtown was a 9-to-5 place. Asheville Mall had become the commercial heart of…

Buy Photo Theo Sober, 7, watches his mother, Nancy Horowitz cast her vote for Asheville City Council in the primary election at Isaac Dickson Elementary School on Tuesday.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE — City voters in northern neighborhoods played a key…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The agency that promotes tourism in Asheville has a $9 million budget of public money, but doesn’t have to reveal how it spends a lot of that money. Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Stephanie…

Beloved House, a local charity providing homeless services, spent last week protesting development downtown and building a makeshift shelter in front of Vance Monument to simulate homelessness. The agency said the relentless rains made its Festival of Shelters even more…

Posted: Monday, October 5, 2015 2:15 am Our view: Why Deschutes should pick Roanoke for its East Coast brewery Please, let this be true. Well, we know this much is true: The Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery, the seventh-largest craft brewer in…

Students and visitors explore The Colburn Earth Science Museum on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The museum is currently located at 2 Patton Avenue, but will change location come next spring. (Photo: Abigail Margulis/amargulis@ashev) ASHEVILLE — For years, the Colburn Earth…

Augusta, GA – Augusta is finally getting in on the craft beer craze. Riverwatch Brewing is looking for Augusta Commission support for a wholesale beer license to set up a small brewery in a building near the Augusta Farmer’s Market.…

Leeann Johnson tries out a slackline demonstration while Alex Belue offers balance tips at the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival in September.(Photo: Citizen-Times file photo) ASHEVILLE — The American Planning Association has named Lexington Avenue as one of five great streets…

Buncombe County’s November unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, released by N.C. Department of Commerce officials on Tuesday, is the lowest since December 2007.(Photo: © Royalty-Free/CORBIS) The Asheville metro area has set another job record, according to data released Wednesday by…

NC DEQ Secretary Donald van der Vaart – our state’s top environmental cop – raised a few eyebrows recently when he sent out an invitation to a party this week at his agency. Come celebrate North Carolina’s clean air, the…