ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An Asheville man has spent the past month reviewing a cache of documents found hidden in a secret compartment next to the chimney of the landmark home he bought last fall. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports an ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Some fake parking tickets handed out in Asheville last week included a rickrolling QR code. WLOS-TV reported the fake tickets included a code that could be scanned with smartphones and pull up a music video for ...

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ASHEVILLE – The tallest building in Asheville is getting a makeover after a half century. Local media outlets report that Asheville City Council last week approved a rezoning request allowing the McKibbon Hotel Group to renovate the former BB&T building ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — McKibbon Hotel Group officials have released more details about a planned hotel in downtown Asheville. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports in a statement Thursday, McKibbon officials said they expect to hire up to 100 full-time employees with starting ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials are preparing to place a new time capsule inside Asheville’s Vance Monument, about six months after a time capsule from 1897 was discovered inside the now-empty space. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Asheville and Buncombe County officials ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An Asheville construction worker has climbed to the top of a crane to remove a Confederate flag that had been placed there. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that members of the public on Monday noticed the flag atop the crane, ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa  — They were supposed to be saviors of downtown, drawing people by offering parking as plentiful as at any suburban shopping mall. But decades after cities tore down buildings and replaced them with parking structures, communities across ...

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ASHEVILLE – The city of Asheville is seeking consultant services to develop a proposed form-based code, meant to supersede, either entirely or in part, the current zoning ordinance and other land development regulations that apply to an area in the ...

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ASHEVILLE — Developer Richard Green had nearly everything in place to build upscale homes on the heavily polluted land next to an old electronic components plant in the mountains outside Asheville. All he needed was a permit. So when the ...

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ASHEVILLE — Biltmore is building a second hotel at Biltmore Estate that’s expected to create about 230 jobs. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported construction is expected to begin by mid-October. The Village Hotel will have 209 guestrooms and is expected to ...

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