Nearly 17,000 Buncombe residents would lose benefits if North Carolina rolls back its 2023 Medicaid expansion in the wake of the Trump administration’s recent tax and spending bill, according to the ...

AdventHealth has blasted Mission Hospital’s request for the North Carolina Supreme Court to reconsider a lower court’s decision to award it 67 hospital beds, saying in an Aug. 1 court filing that the ...

Climate scientist David Easterling decided it was time to seriously think about retirement from the National Centers for ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Regarding the bear situation, my concern is that nothing kills these bears. Did you ever see a roadkill bear, like a ...

Ask just about any regular cyclist out there about their close calls or abusive encounters with motorists, and you’ll get an earful. “Everybody I talk to — almost everybody — has been hit by a car,” ...

If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his ...

Just more than a month after judges made what some saw as the final decision in a case over new hospital beds for Buncombe ...

A former University of North Carolina Asheville research assistant alleged in a lawsuit this year that the university ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: When will the Haywood Road resurfacing ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I’m curious about the pipeline now running ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted Mission Hospital’s request for a temporary stay of a lower court’s decision to grant 67 acute care beds to AdventHealth nearly three years ago. The order, ...

For about the first 10 years or so after my wife and I moved to this area in 1995, we never saw a bear — unless you count the ones on exhibit at the WNC Nature Center. Didn’t see one while hiking on ...