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: Regarding the bear situation, my concern is that nothing kills these bears. Did you ever see a roadkill bear, like a ...

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: This summer so far has been dancing between toasty and muggy, with a whole bunch of 90-degree days. To the best of my ...

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

After decades of planning and debate, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has said it’s close to starting construction on the long-gestating I-26 Connector project. But community members, ...

Three weeks after a 13-year-old girl died by suicide at a Weaverville residential treatment program, the state health department has barred the facility from admitting more clients, according to a ...

President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” that passed in the House last week may financially stress tens of thousands of people in western North Carolina — many struggling in Tropical Storm Helene’s ...

The U.S. Forest Service used incomplete, inconsistent and misleading data to justify a dramatic expansion of logging in western North Carolina’s national forests over the coming decades, according to ...