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Which says less about mega-breweries than it does about one of the remarkable traits of America's small breweries: the enthusiasm for working together.

Homicide investigators in Lumberton are looking into the death of a man who was found on the front steps of his home.

Many modern country-folk acts like to craft their twang-tinged tracks from cramped Brooklyn apartments or open-mic nights on Nashville's Music Row, but Asheville, N.C., quartet River Whyless makes music straight from the hills of North Carolina.

According to the American Pet Products Association, nearly half of the 70 to 80 million household dogs in the U.S. hop in bed with their owners at night.

Maria Buchanan, David Sebren and Gina Stewart star as Fern, Wilbur the pig and a musician in Asheville Creative Arts' "Charlotte's Web."

Expansive Brooklyn-based funk band Lettuce hits the 20-year this year back and isn't slowing down.

A hat tip to Carolina Plotthound for this link of NAACP - North Carolina chapter President and leader of the "Moral Monday" protests Rev.

POSITIVE MOMENTUM: Members of Asheville's Youth Leadership Academy participated in a recent Me2We conference that fostered leadership and community involvement.

A national veterans group calling for peace at home and overseas is bringing its message to Asheville for its annual convention.

It was a special night on Tuesday at the Tennessee Smokies Stadium for Major Cook, the Asheville, North Carolina native who was reunited with his pets.

Town Mountain has always been known as a band that is best experienced live. That's not a knock on their three fine studio albums, just a recognition from their fans that it's a show that needs to be seen as well as heard.

Things are heating up on planet Earth. Average global temperatures shattered records this June ... for the second month in a row, according to a new report from the National Climactic Data Center.

WHAT'S YOUR MOTIVATION?: Kevin Patrick Murphy, founder of The Actor's Center of Asheville, describes the center as a kind of gym - "You have to work the muscles," he says.

No charges will be filed against the Asheville Police officer who fired the shot that killed former Reynolds High School football star A.J. Marion.

Poetry has long been an action-packed artistic genre in Western North Carolina. Here, it's not merely written but spoken, slammed and taken into schools .

FRIENDLY: Even though Secret Agent 23 Skidoo is based on the West Coast, he plans to continue collaborating with Asheville artists.

I put my money where my mouth is with cloud DR, and it not only benefited my organization but also earned us a prestigious award.

Senate Republicans have retooled a proposal limiting local sales taxes in North Carolina but could still stop two large counties from putting referenda on the ballot this fall.

If you've even been a fan of soap operas, you may remember the long-popular CBS daytime drama, "As the World Turns".

The Groundhog Day star was flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Asheville in North Carolina four years ago when the light aircraft was hit with a powerful gust of wind and the pilot had to battle to control the plane.