A wellness checkup

When you love someone, you want to shout it from the mountaintops. What better way to let the world know about the people and things you truly love than with…

Looking Glass Creamery slates Carmelita as a sauce. True, it’s good on apples, bread, ice cream, but it’s best, unaccompanied, with a spoon. Some of the nation’s top confection connoisseurs…

The big, dark cavern and sometime parking area next door to Lexington Avenue Brewery is about to burst open with a glorious bounty of Asian-inspired eats and craft beer. That's…

In the morning, the neighborhood grocer wakes up and enjoys a breakfast at home with his family before sauntering down the steps to his shop. There, he spends the day…

The South Slope neighborhood is growing like a weed on a sunny, south-facing barrow. The up-and-coming neighborhood — and subject of a January Xpress cover story — will be home…

Craig Hoge proudly mans his bright-yellow bread truck, which is decked out with pictures of anthropomorphic sausages and tiny hearts. It's an eye-catching homage to “anything meaty, tasty and juicy,”…

Breweries aren’t the only big news this year. Asheville has a new beer writer. Our longtime Brews News columnist, Anne Fitten Glenn, departed last year to join Oskar Blues, and…

Headwaters Brewing of Waynesville was sent a cease-and-desist order earlier this month over its name. The dispute came from Victory Brewing Co. of Downington, Pa., makers of popular beers like…

Asheville City Council is thinking about your stomach — and stomachs all over town, in fact. On Jan. 22, Council members voted 6-0 to adopt the Food Action Plan, drafted…

Asheville is the health care hub for Western North Carolina, and Mission Health is a major presence, dominating a swath of town that’s thick with doctor's offices. Since 2009, however,…

In less than 10 minutes, a doctor or nurse can get a read on a patient’s overall health and well-being just by checking a few key indicators: pulse, blood pressure,…

In this first part of a two-issue look at both broad questions and specific ideas, we give Buncombe County a check up, explore where alternative and traditional medicine meet, note…

Rutherford Regional Health System's path to becoming a part of the Asheville-based Mission Health system continued this month when Mission announced that the two organizations finalized a non-binding memorandum of…

Making Western North Carolina healthier comes down to three things: prevention, collaboration and choices, says Leah Ferguson, a lead coordinator for Region 2 of the Community Transformation Project.

After a tumultuous year for Western Highlands, the regional mental-health agency is starting 2013 on stronger financial footing. Western Highlands Board Chairman Charles E. Vines (who is also Mitchell County…

After a tumultuous year for Western Highlands, the regional mental-health agency is starting 2013 on stronger financial footing.

Searching for a retail space is an exciting time for any business owner. Retail locations have unique characteristics, so careful, thoughtful selection can make or break your business. But with…

Mayor Bellamy activates dudes into Roller Derby frontline action

As I guided a group of paddlers 117 miles down the French Broad River over nine days last summer, we passed dozens of boaters, fishermen, tubers, swimmers and other folks…

Given the public's lack of information on government in our country at present, the "Cecil Bothwell emails" cited in the Jan. 23 "Asheville Disclaimer" constitute attack. So much of public…

At the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace March I noticed a group of white, teenage boys … taking turns posing and laughing while taking pictures with an African-American man…

For years my wife and I have traveled to Hot Springs (flinging cash in every direction while traveling through Asheville) to soak and bring back some of its fine spring…

As an Asheville native and an environmental science major at UNC-Chapel Hill, I have always loved state parks. In fact, my choice to major in environmental science branched from the…