Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: John Boyle here saving you 10 minutes of confusion. A reader sent me an entertaining but really convoluted ...

Virginia Gilbert was shocked and angry after she learned last week that premiums for her Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance ...

The cancer patients on floor K9 were among the sickest at Mission Hospital, in need of close monitoring. Dr. Martin Palmeri, ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently took my first flight out of ...

Brittany Ebert thinks federal lawmakers might reopen the government and resume food stamp funding if they knew what it was ...

The last of four parts The steady dwindling of Asheville’s Black population shows no sign of abating, but slowing or reversing this decades-long decline has no simple solutions. As Asheville ...

Mission Health’s corporate owner, HCA Healthcare, has seen its revenues increase by $3.8 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, the company reported. The 7.2 percent increase over 2024, along ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently was walking up and down North Lexington Avenue downtown and noticed that there are still many loose ...

We should all get in touch with the zipper. The zipper merge, that is! Get your mind out of the gutter, and onto the interstate. Not surprisingly, I apparently have been a bit of a dolt for not better ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently was walking up and down North Lexington Avenue downtown and noticed that there are still many loose ...

Dozens of powerful, fast-moving landslides carved deep scars into the hills and valleys around Buncombe County amid the fury of Tropical Storm Helene, sweeping away lives, destroying or damaging ...

Democrats looking for signs of growing support around the country found few reasons for optimism this November. Western North Carolina was the exception. As a nationwide red wave crashed over the ...