Steve Rasmussen | 01/05/00
Audubon Society enhances Beaver Lake wetlands
Margaret Williams | 01/05/00
Animals, ambulances and junk
Margaret Williams | 01/05/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 01/05/00
Margaret Williams | 01/05/00
Council postpones airport-property decision
Matthew Dickens | 01/05/00
Count the people and the money
Margaret Williams | 01/12/00
New urbanites help redefine downtown Asheville
Matthew Dickens | 01/12/00
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Matthew Dickens | 01/12/00
Margaret Williams | 01/12/00
Authority contemplates an increase
Margaret Williams | 01/12/00
The un-millennium in Asheville
Margaret Williams | 01/12/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 01/12/00
Air agency narrowly approves financial audit
Steve Rasmussen | 01/19/00
Airport Authority master of its domain; racetrack still doesn't have a home
Matthew Dickens | 01/19/00
City lands $500,000 grant -- but still has miles to go
Matthew Dickens | 01/19/00
Matthew Dickens | 01/19/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 01/19/00
Animals, boats and the big hole
Margaret Williams | 01/26/00
Council tackles sustainable economic development, UDO amendments, a new Pritchard Park design and more
Matthew Dickens | 01/26/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 01/26/00
Margaret Williams | 01/26/00
Council zones land outside city limits
Matthew Dickens | 02/02/00
NPR breaks into the digital age
Margaret Williams | 02/02/00
Great Decisions 2000 series addresses issues vital to U.S. interests
Tracy Rose | 02/02/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 02/02/00
Tarantulas, pontoons and taxes
Margaret Williams | 02/09/00
Paper trails, movie stars, animal control and road rage
Matthew Dickens | 02/09/00
Hundreds crowd courthouse for night-court sessions
Tracy Rose | 02/09/00
Night court -- love it or hate it
Tracy Rose | 02/09/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 02/09/00
Council megasession lasts nine hours
Matthew Dickens | 02/16/00
Waking up during surgery
Tracy Rose | 02/16/00
Family asks community for help
| 02/16/00
Quality of life issues weigh heavily at Asheville City Council retreat
Matthew Dickens | 02/16/00
Swimming pools and parking lots
Margaret Williams | 02/23/00
Council seeks ways to shorten meetings
Matthew Dickens | 02/23/00
Tracking trash in Buncombe
Margaret Williams | 02/23/00
City aims for permanent skateboard park
Margaret Williams | 02/23/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 02/23/00
Steve Rasmussen | 03/01/00
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Council tackles parks, zoning and more
Matthew Dickens | 03/01/00
Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory sniffs out the facts
Tracy Rose | 03/01/00
Margaret Williams | 03/01/00 |
Buncombe County parent sues school board for public records -- and gets them
Tracy Rose | 03/01/00
Surprise withdrawal threatens end of air agency
Steve Rasmussen | 03/08/00
French Broad Co-op faces growing pains, labor woes
Matthew Dickens | 03/08/00
Asheville City Council hears Shiloh residents' concerns
Matthew Dickens | 03/08/00
Margaret Williams | 03/08/00
Or, how to label a storm drain
Margaret Williams | 03/08/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 03/08/00
Commissioners urge General Assembly to act
Margaret Williams | 03/15/00
Pollution and annexation woes
Matthew Dickens | 03/15/00
Asheville's historic architecture
Heather Smith | 03/15/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 03/15/00
Air agency ponders next move
Steve Rasmussen | 03/22/00
No encore for racing
Matthew Dickens | 03/22/00
Focus groups tackle the I-26 Connector project
Matthew Dickens | 03/22/00
The rise and fall of Asheville's trolleys
Al Mankoff | 03/22/00
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| 03/22/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 03/22/00
Spurned spouses sue lovers -- and sometimes win big
Tracy Rose | 03/29/00 |
Clearing the air?
Margaret Williams | 03/29/00
Commissioners get the lowdown on trained-worker shortages, landfill technology and DOT tactics
Tracy Rose | 03/29/00
Get ready for smart growth on Charlotte Street
Matthew Dickens | 03/29/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 03/29/00
Environmentalists, loggers await return of endangered bat
Brady Huggett | 04/05/00
Opinions vary on what's best for the Indiana bat
Brady Huggett | 04/05/00
Council wants in on air-agency decision
Matthew Dickens | 04/05/00
Council wants in on air-agency decision
Matthew Dickens | 04/05/00
Agency's fate up in the air
Margaret Williams | 04/12/00
When does America's drug war infringe on citizens' civil rights?
Hamish Ziegler | 04/12/00
Asheville City Council considers new Civic Center options
Matthew Dickens | 04/12/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 04/12/00
Steve Rasmussen | 04/19/00
Buncombe needs business sites and a trained work force
Margaret Williams | 04/19/00
Council sets hearing on air agency; task force to explore Civic Center funding
Matthew Dickens | 04/19/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 04/19/00
Matthew Dickens | 04/19/00
Advocates demand autonomy for air agency
Margaret Williams | 04/26/00
Council considers housing, water-treatment options
Matthew Dickens | 04/26/00
How we treat animals reveals much about ourselves
Tracy Rose | 05/03/00
Tracy Rose | 05/03/00
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Crowell Farms planned development OK'd
Matthew Dickens | 05/03/00
Randy Smith | 05/10/00
Money for aging program debated
Margaret Williams | 05/10/00
Eblen auction runs the gamut to help local families
Tracy Rose | 05/10/00
Council endorses independent air agency
Matthew Dickens | 05/10/00
Preservation Society looks to the future
Margaret Williams | 05/10/00
Margaret Williams | 05/10/00
Steve Rasmussen | 05/17/00
Arson investigators battle the odds
Matthew Dickens | 05/17/00
Arson investigators battle the odds
Matthew Dickens | 05/17/00
Arson investigators battle the odds
Matthew Dickens | 05/17/00
Asheville City Council deals with zoning and housing issues (plus bids farewell to a fire chief)
Matthew Dickens | 05/17/00
Repeal of state sales-tax exemption threatens small newspapers' survival
John Manuel | 05/17/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 05/17/00
A little help from your friends
Margaret Williams | 05/24/00
What next for the Civic Center
Matthew Dickens | 05/24/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Paul Schattel | 05/24/00
Diana Chepkwony earns Chamber scholarship
Margaret Williams | 05/31/00 |
Council gears up to raise taxes, cut agency support
Matthew Dickens | 05/31/00
Asheville City Council tackles five sticky topics
Matthew Dickens | 05/31/00
Commissioners make last-minute changes to air-agency agreement
Tracy Rose | 06/07/00
City Council approves new air-pollution agreement
Matthew Dickens | 06/07/00
Family's tragedy may help protect future newborns
Tracy Rose | 06/07/00
Tracy Rose | 06/07/00
Margaret Williams | 06/07/00
Water, air and taxes
Margaret Williams | 06/14/00
Conservative author shares conspiracy theories
Tracy Rose | 06/14/00
Citizens eye proposed budget
Matthew Dickens | 06/14/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Matthew Dickens, Tracy Rose, Lisa Watters, Jeff Fobes | 06/14/00
City and county grapple with the dangers of duplicate street names
Matthew Dickens | 06/14/00
Ridge tops declared nonattainment for ozone; lowlands soon to follow
Steve Rasmussen | 06/21/00
Beach bingo games: loose laws, big bucks
Brian Sarzynski | 06/21/00
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Council members sharply split
Matthew Dickens | 06/21/00
Neighbors raise concerns about militia, gunfire at proposed resort
Tracy Rose | 06/21/00
The Public Art Board's vision for Asheville
Margaret Williams | 06/21/00
Council considers resolution opposing Hunt lawsuit
Matthew Dickens | 06/28/00
Matthew Dickens | 06/28/00 |
City, Battery Park merchants compromise
Margaret Williams | 06/28/00
State legislators take aim at alternative medicine
Tracy Rose | 07/05/00
Steve Rasmussen | 07/05/00
Young Taiwanese baseball wonder Tsao Chin-hui becomes a Tourist
Brian Sarzynski | 07/05/00
Keep Buncombe green
Margaret Williams | 07/05/00
Artists' community planned for West Asheville; Council approves second PUD
Matthew Dickens | 07/05/00
Long-standing community-garden project shuts down
Margaret Williams | 07/05/00
A school for real-estate dreamers
Margaret Williams | 07/12/00
A school for real-estate dreamers
| 07/12/00
Public hearing may yield solution to neighbors' concerns
Tracy Rose | 07/12/00
State bill threatens local funding
Margaret Williams | 07/12/00
Business group opposes local clean-air initiatives
Steve Rasmussen | 07/12/00
CP&L protests pollution fine
Steve Rasmussen | 07/19/00
Commissioners make Air Quality Agency appointments
Tracy Rose | 07/19/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 07/19/00
I-26 design forum to seek common ground
Matthew Dickens | 07/19/00
I-26 Connector design forum set for July 21-22
Matthew Dickens | 07/19/00
Surprises mark the AQA's inaugural meeting
Steve Rasmussen | 07/26/00
Council considers various city appointees and gears up for proposed super Wal-Mart hearing
Margaret Williams | 07/26/00
State law would shift balance of power in appeals
Matthew Dickens | 07/26/00
Cooking foe pushes raw-food living
Tracy Rose | 07/26/00
Activist speaks on organic farming, animal practices
Tracy Rose | 07/26/00
Tracy Rose | 08/02/00
Commissioners give Friends for Animals a vote of confidence
Margaret Williams | 08/02/00
Wal-Mart Supercenter hearing postponed
Matthew Dickens | 08/02/00
New woes for controversial development
Matthew Dickens | 08/02/00
Margaret Williams | 08/02/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 08/02/00
Citizens, DOT share diverse views at forum
Matthew Dickens | 08/02/00
Poster children for free speech
Margaret Williams | 08/09/00
Council tackles downtown parking and the UDO
Matthew Dickens | 08/09/00
The North-Carolina American Republic challenges the legitimacy of state government
Tracy Rose | 08/09/00 |
Citizens, Gov. Hunt confront sources of WNC's ozone pollution
Steve Rasmussen | 08/16/00
Council tables UDO amendment, sets Wal-Mart Supercenter public hearing
Matthew Dickens | 08/16/00
Buncombe families lament the loss of their trees
Tracy Rose | 08/16/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 08/16/00
Commissioners revisit noise ordinance
Margaret Williams | 08/23/00
Council looks at parks and economic-development funding, and considers allowing businesses more creativity for signs
Matthew Dickens | 08/23/00
Tracy Rose | 08/30/00
City considers buying alternative-fuel vehicles
Matthew Dickens | 08/30/00
Forum addresses police misconduct
Matthew Dickens | 08/30/00
Council sets aside time for Wal-Mart hearing, approves UDO amendment
Matthew Dickens | 08/30/00
Rob Messick's romance with old-growth forests
Margaret Williams | 08/30/00
Council fields north Asheville complaints
Margaret Williams | 09/06/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Lisa Watters | 09/06/00
Council, mayor wrangle over appointment
Margaret Williams | 09/13/00
Anti-abortion activist to receive award
Margaret Williams | 09/13/00
City, realtors cosponsor safety workshop
Margaret Williams | 09/13/00
Brian Sarzynski | 09/13/00
Air-agency board upholds $12,000 fine for improper asbestos removal
Steve Rasmussen | 09/20/00
Libraries get a boost in (almost) placid meeting
Tracy Rose | 09/20/00
Kids Voting aims to instill lifetime voting habits
Margaret Williams | 09/20/00
Madison resort receives permit to operate, with one restriction
Tracy Rose | 09/20/00
Council endorses I-26 report, postpones cab-fare increase
Brian Sarzynski, Margaret Williams | 09/20/00
Co-op board pulls together to face uncertain future
Margaret Williams | 09/27/00
Buncombe County appoints financial checkers
Tracy Rose | 09/27/00
Woe is Merrimon Avenue
Margaret Williams | 09/27/00
In the zone
Brian Sarzynski | 10/04/00
Rulings pave way for more lawsuits
Tracy Rose | 10/04/00
Hotel owners point finger at Buncombe County
Tracy Rose | 10/04/00
Water Authority considers disbanding conservation project
Margaret Williams | 10/04/00
Asheville area business news briefs and announcements
| 10/11/00
County urged to join city in providing public access TV
Tracy Rose | 10/11/00
Keeping cozy at the bus stop
Margaret Williams | 10/11/00
All's fair in pizza and presidential debates
Margaret Williams | 10/11/00
NAACP pushes voter registration
Margaret Williams | 10/11/00
Contractors appeal air-pollution citations
Steve Rasmussen | 10/18/00
Contractors appeal air-pollution citations
Lisa Watters | 10/18/00
Sobol: No more attacks
Tracy Rose | 10/18/00
Council vetoes school expansion
Brian Sarzynski | 10/18/00
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The fight for the District 11 congressional seat
Margaret Williams | 10/25/00
State Senate candidates air diverse views
Brian Sarzynski | 10/25/00
A look at the candidates for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners
Tracy Rose | 11/01/00
Council ponders where to hold Wal-Mart hearing
Brian Sarzynski | 11/01/00
The state of our political system
Margaret Williams | 11/01/00
Nine candidates vie for Buncombe County School Board seats
Brian Sarzynski | 11/01/00
Margaret Williams | 11/01/00
Buy Appalachian campaign kicks off at Grove Park Inn
Margaret Williams | 11/08/00
Commissioners hear Avery's Creek road dispute
Tracy Rose | 11/08/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Margaret Williams, Marsha Barber | 11/08/00
City crew tackles more roads, courtesy of tax hike
Margaret Williams | 11/08/00 |
Gerber Wal-Mart Hearing Moved to Stephens-Lee Center
Brian Sarzynzki | 11/08/00
Commissioners get engineering program update
Tracy Rose | 11/15/00
Creating affordable housing in WNC
Margaret Williams | 11/15/00
Troubling allegations aimed at WNCW
Tracy Rose | 11/15/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 11/15/00
Council tackles a host of transportation issues
Margaret Williams | 11/15/00
City nixes Wal-Mart Supercenter; Gerber site proposal voted down
Brian Sarzynski | 11/22/00
Group brings concerns to Board of Trustees
Tracy Rose | 11/22/00
WNC pushes for passenger line
Margaret Williams | 11/22/00 |
Pacifying the Civic Center turf war
Margaret Williams | 11/28/00
How far should regulators go in striking deals with air-pollution violators?
Steve Rasmussen | 11/29/00
Death-penalty opponents call for moratorium
Tracy Rose | 11/29/00
Death-penalty opponents call for moratorium
Lisa Watters | 11/29/00
Praise piled on departing chairman
Tracy Rose | 11/29/00
Fragile family faces eviction
Margaret Williams | 12/06/00
Council votes to close Merrimon Avenue boarding house
Brian Sarzynzki | 12/06/00
County negotiating agreement with Charter
Margaret Williams | 12/13/00
Zoning rears head in board's first regular meeting
Tracy Rose | 12/13/00
North-Carolina American Republic mounts challenge in Buncombe County Courthouse
Tracy Rose | 12/13/00 |
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
Lisa Watters | 12/13/00
Regional mental-health board takes steps to outmaneuver the state
Tracy Rose | 12/20/00
Council helps boarding-house tenants
Margaret Williams | 12/20/00
Displaced tenants scramble for new homes
Margaret Williams | 12/20/00
Community land trusts offer low-cost home ownership
Tracy Rose | 12/20/00
Asheville area business news briefs and announcements
Lisa Watters | 12/20/00
Commissioners tackle south Buncombe zoning dispute
Tracy Rose | 12/27/00
Council tackles prickly topics in record time
Brian Sarzynski | 12/27/00
The case of the Siberian elm
Margaret Williams | 12/27/00
Asheville area news briefs and announcements
| 12/27/00
General manager resigns; FCC alerted
Tracy Rose | 12/27/00
