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Opinion: Are we heading toward bearmageddon? With human-bear interactions on the rise, we’ve become too casual around our ursine neighbors
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 ...
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Mission takes its nearly 3-year battle for 67 hospital beds to North Carolina Supreme Court
Just more than a month after judges made what some saw as the final decision in a case over new hospital beds for Buncombe ...
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A UNCA researcher raised concerns about research misconduct. Then he lost his job.
A former University of North Carolina Asheville research assistant alleged in a lawsuit this year that the university ...
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Weaverville fugitive who killed 2 in violent rampage had romantic relationship with his Buncombe pretrial caseworker, victim’s attorneys say
The Buncombe County pretrial services worker assigned to monitor Ryan Ricky Houston, who committed one of western North Carolina’s most horrific crime sprees a year ago, was in a romantic relationship ...
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Answer Man: Haywood Road resurfacing, pedestrian/bike improvements coming soon? Mysterious pedestals going up near Biltmore’s iconic lawn?
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: When will the Haywood Road resurfacing project begin in West Asheville? Will we actually get bike lanes and crosswalk ...
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Answer Man: Unusual above-ground pipeline on Merrimon Avenue? Blue Ridge Parkway ‘speed trap’? Are Parkway road repairs safe?
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 ...