Dec 16, 2024 · A Mission Hospital pharmacist who supervised a team that tracked medication histories and prevented errors is suing the hospital, its corporate owner, and her boss after she was fired for posting a comment on social media criticizing what she described as inadequate staffing in her department. The lawsuit, filed in Buncombe County Superior Court on […]

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Nov 9, 2024 · Local homeowners who lost their homes or sustained serious damage in Helene’s floodwaters can begin applying next week to a federal program that may buy the home outright, or pay to have it elevated or rebuilt at a higher level. Steve McGugan, the state of North Carolina’s Hazard Mitigations section chief, explained at the Buncombe […]

Nov 3, 2024 · Asheville Watchdog is bringing you the stories behind the staggering loss of life from Helene, the children, parents, grandparents, multiple generations of a single family, all gone in one of the worst natural disasters to hit the mountains of western North Carolina. This is the fourth installment. Sarah Moore describes the sensation she felt that […]

Dec 19, 2024 · Money has been pouring into western North Carolina in unprecedented amounts since Tropical Storm Helene from individual donors, corporations and foundations throughout the U.S. At least $205 million has been raised or made available through disaster relief funds, benefit concerts and fundraisers, Asheville Watchdog found. Nonprofits in the region have raised millions more to provide […]

Jan 20, 2025 · Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Regarding Salvage Station, are the rumors true that they signed a deal to move into the old Sonopress facility/outdoor space up here in Weaverville? Word is the town approved the deal late last year. My answer: Word ...

Nov 21, 2024 · Asheville Watchdog is bringing you the stories behind the staggering loss of life from Helene, the children, parents, grandparents, multiple generations of a single family, all gone in one of the worst natural disasters to hit the mountains of western North Carolina. This is the seventh installment. Buncombe County’s homeless advocates feared the worst: Helene […]

Oct 6, 2024 · That dreadful sense of loss. We’ve felt it time and again the past nine days, over neighbors who lost lives and homes, over our infrastructure that lost the ability to provide for our basic needs, and over our beloved city and county, unrecognizable in many parts. But Asheville has also lost part of its soul, […]

Oct 29, 2024 · Asheville Watchdog is bringing you the stories behind the staggering loss of life from Helene, the children, parents, grandparents, multiple generations of a single family, all gone in one of the worst natural disasters to hit the mountains of western North Carolina. This is the third installment. Zubila Shafiq saw her husband, Omar Khan, for […]

Oct 4, 2024 · In terms of rainfall, flooding, and, tragically, lives lost, Hurricane Helene is officially worse than the historic 1916 and 2004 floods that until last week stood as the most damaging natural disasters in recorded Buncombe County history, according to state climate data. “I just kind of assumed that … we wouldn’t ever actually see another […]