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

For the second year in a row, the independent monitor of HCA Healthcare’s $1.5 billion purchase of Mission Health has found ...

Cyclist Abby Walker was a victim of road rage in July, simply because a motorist apparently didn’t like that she was transporting bikes on her vehicle. // Watchdog video by Starr Sariego “It just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his lender would have almost certainly required flood insurance as a condition ...

It took a few seconds for the meaning of Roy Cooper’s little joke to land with the audience at a dinner of North Carolina Democrats last Saturday night in Raleigh. In a folksy style little changed ...