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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mission Hospital’s cancer center will lose its last remaining medical oncologist next month. Dr. Michael Burke, the lone oncologist listed on the cancer center’s website, told Asheville Watchdog he ...

The planned I-26 Connector flyover across Patton Avenue in West Asheville can be seen in the upper right of this rendering from a NCDOT presentation in February. // Credit: North Carolina Department ...

The company that controls the leases on the residential and commercial space in the historic Grove Arcade building downtown recently let residents living in the 42 apartments know that they are ...

A coalition of prominent physicians and patient advocates has criticized the thoroughness of Mission Hospital’s federally approved plan to fix numerous failures documented in a U.S. Centers for ...

[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that UNCA would eliminate all adjunct faculty. Chancellor Kimberly van Noort said the university would curtail the use of adjunct faculty.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, flanked by Sen. Julie Mayfield, nurses, physicians, and a cancer patient, announced Dec. 14 that his office was suing HCA Healthcare and its Mission Health ...