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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Scrolling through Instagram, I saw a reel about visiting Asheville, featuring Gayle King and Adam Glassman, in a ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: This summer so far has been dancing between toasty and muggy, with a whole bunch of 90-degree days. To the best of my ...