Stay updated with breaking news from Paint Fork. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Madison voted to scrap the requirement from its Mountain Ridge Protection Ordinance. Madison was the only county with a ridge top setback regulation.
Buncombe County officials plan to fix a bridge and realign a Barnardsville creek in an effort to prevent flooding.
The man who escaped from a Davidson County correctional facility last week was caught on Friday in the area where he was originally lived, Madison County.
Harwood said Johnny Porche, 46, was apprehended around 1:10 a.m. in the Paint Fork area of Mars Hill after escaping a Lexington, N.C. prison Nov. 8.
MARS HILL, N.C. -- Residents of Mars Hill, along with several community partners, recently restored a major watershed with the goal of protecting the environment and local property, improving water quality and boosting outdoor recreation opportunities. Alan Walker, project manager for the nonprofit Resource Institute, said highway construction damaged portions of California, Paint Fork and Little Ivy Creeks, and explained local landowners were seeing property loss. ...