The following article was originally published by Brevard NewsBeat. Asheville Watchdog is republishing with its permission.] BREVARD — When retired pediatrician Ora Wells first saw the MRI image ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Rumors are rampant about changes at the Carl Sandburg Site. Especially concerning are rumors that the person in ...

Flying makes me philosophical. By that, I mean it makes me ask a lot of existential questions, such as: You may have deduced that I’ve been doing some flying lately, and you are correct. My wife Grace ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies, and the real answers: Question: I’ve never been inside the UNC Asheville chancellor’s residence, but I’m told that it’s quite large and cost a ...

Laura Law doesn’t know what she’s going to do. The Mission Hospital labor and delivery nurse expects nearly $6,000 in ...

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Mission Hospital has released at least 111 bodies to funeral homes before a legally required medical examiner’s review, ...

The Town of Biltmore Forest largely avoided serious flooding from Tropical Storm Helene, but the heavily forested town lost an enormous number of mature trees. The town has hired contractors to handle ...

Eric Penland Jr. and his mother, Tiffany Dobbs, wait in a critical care room at Mission Hospital. Penland has been a patient at HCA Healthcare-owned Mission Hospital since July 2021, “despite there ...