At Ace Hardware on Merrimon Avenue, Alecks Wyatte works on a display of potting soil as David Richards helps Matt Jacobs shop for seeds he his hoping to plant early this year in his greenhouse.

Mission Health has been named among the top 15 health systems in the U.S. in the annual study done by Thomson Reuters.

Although there is ongoing debate over the illegality of growing maligned, environmentally friendly hemp, in 2009 in nearby Asheville, North Carolina, construction began on the first house permitted in the U.S. to be built with hemp.

Local musician and comedian Jeffrey Hyde Thompson stars in this spoof. The video takes its cues from the popular "shit various people say" formats, which all started with the hilarious Shit My Day Says , a Twitter feed started by comedic writer Justin Halpern after he moved back in with his parents.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to resurface almost 20 miles of roads in Buncombe County.

Expect a relatively mild, windy day in the Asheville area today, with a chance of rain this afternoon and tonight.

A fiberglass zebra that was recently stolen from Tropical Gardens Mini Golf on Patton Avenue has been returned to its West Asheville home.

An estimated 2,000 people marched from St. James AME Church to Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville during the Martin Luther King Jr.

Terra Nostra, a furniture, art and clothing boutique at the corner of Walnut Street and North Lexington Avenue, is closing for good at the end of the month.

Asheville based hip-hop artists 1NE 5IVE and Chachillie released their video for "Hello to the Hero" on Martin Luther King Jr.

The Daily Beast posted a slideshow highlighting the "most tolerant cities" in the U.S., with North Carolina snagging two of the top 20 positions .

Drinking Made Easy does Asheville Back in July, the Drinking Made Easy team came to Asheville.

Michelle Dawn Crabtree, 30, died at the scene of the single-vehicle wreck on the I-240 East ramp onto I-40, Asheville police Lt.

Who: The DePue Brothers Band. When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Diana Wortham Theatre, Pack Place.

In an effort to give low-income residents more access to fresh food, the city is allowing farmers markets in more places and could soon cut even more restrictions on where growers can sell vegetables and homemade goods.

John Chasteen introduces his dog, Rascal, to the fence around his yard after volunteers with ChainFree Asheville finished building the fence Sunday afternoon.

The Big Love Fest, a festival spotlighting local entrepreneurs and artists, is scheduled for May 6 and event organizers plan to issue a call for vendors starting Wednesday at loveasheville.org. Makers: Artists and crafters who source their goods locally will be given priority.

Nearly $150 in purchases at Starbucks and $1,000 for a rental car in L.A. are among the charges.

On Monday, Jan. 23, several dozen citizens will sit down together to build bridges - bridges of racial understanding.

Want to know how much carbon dioxide your local power plant or landfill emit? A new EPA tool maps the info for the highest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including five sources near Asheville.