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 ...

If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 the second year in a row, the independent monitor of HCA Healthcare’s $1.5 billion purchase of Mission Health has found the Nashville-based company potentially not in compliance with the purchase ...

Just more than a month after judges made what some saw as the final decision in a case over new hospital beds for Buncombe County and the surrounding region, Mission Hospital signaled in the state’s ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I’m curious about the pipeline now running along Merrimon Avenue between Beaver Lake and the Bird Sanctuary. It ...