A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. Thirty-five years later, there’s still no sidewalk.

By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly KFF Health News DURHAM, N.C. — It’s been 35 years since John Parker died after a pickup collided with the bike he was riding on Cheek Road in east …

A ‘second wave’ of medical issues may slam the region in Helene’s wake, disaster response officials caution

By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog After the floods come the waves. Following the initial health crises in the aftermath of tropical storm Helene, Buncombe County and others inundated by the …

Storm damage increases barriers to abortion access in WNC

By Rachel Crumpler Planned Parenthood’s Asheville clinic, the only abortion provider in western North Carolina, is temporarily closed because of damage inflicted by the remnants of Hurricane …
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