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Equal pay for equal work is still a dream for many women across the state and region. Inside: A look at the gap and where, in WNC, it appears to be the most narrow.
WNC Healthy Impact is an initiative among the 16 local health departments and nonprofit hospitals in the region that is gauging Western North Carolina ...
The North Carolina House approved a $20.3 billion state budget late Wednesday, but the dust has yet to settle. We check in with WNC's House representa ...
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday pushed forward a bill introduced last week that would give each living, confirmed victim of North Carolina’ ...
Legislative debate on Mission Health's operating agreement fizzled Thursday. A committee charged with studying the state's sixth largest health system's operations abandoned previous suggestions to say more study is needed. Both Mission and ...
Launched on Feb. 23, missionfactchecker.org is billed as a site that gives the citizens of Western North Carolina a one-stop shop for health facts and figures for the region. But it’s also enabled the hospital system to start a grassroots ...
In the spring of 2010, Disability Rights NC, a protection and advocacy group, contacted Whitman Wright and asked if a group of college students could visit Canterbury Hills Adult Care Home in Candler, one of the seven adult care homes he ow ...
Jennifer Swenson of Smart Start in Yancey and Mitchell counties says 36,000 children in North Carolina are on waiting lists for subsidies. The waiting lists worry her because they mean children aren’t getting quality care and parents with ...
The region's most rural and mountainous school systems face unique challenges as the state works to close a $2.4 billion budget shortfall. After years of cutbacks, more are looming. In Macon County, leaders may have found some solutions oth ...
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