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

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...