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A week after learning that state health officials have terminated the agency's contract to provide behavioral health services to Medicaid recipients, the Western Highlands Area Authority met Friday to discuss what happens next.
Joblessness fell in February, though most countywide unemployment rates in the region were more than 10 percent.
State health officials have announced they will terminate a state contract with Western Highlands Network to provide mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities services to individuals in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitc ...
The second installment of our ongoing investigation yields additional records, while others remain unavailable. Newly released documents from Haywood County indicate concern over "missing items."
Our investigation continues into which WNC sheriffs will share key documents describing how they handle evidence. Two weeks since our first report, more sheriff's offices have released their policies, procedures and inspection records for t ...
From cuts to economic development and museum programs to new funds for trout fisheries and DOT maintenance facilities, Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed budget reveals how Western North Carolina would fare if the suggested statewide spending plan ...
The start of 2013 saw unemployment rise in each of the state's 100 counties in January, data from the N.C. Division of Employment Security released last week show.
On Wednesday, March 20, the governor's anticipated budget was released, and news and social media posters began talking about what it contains. At more than $20 billion, his state budget proposal has copious details. Here's some of the firs ...
A debate has already started over statewide energy policy legislation introduced last week by Rep. Mike Hager. Among other WNC legislators' efforts: reducing a reporting requirement for electric membership cooperatives and repealing prohibi ...
Largely positive, the report did find challenges with the lack of a top leader at agency providing mental health services to eight WNC counties. Leaders said they want changes to a state law preventing certain CEO benefits.
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