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WEB4 days ago · Asheville Watchdog wins national award for its four-part series on area’s tourism industry. Asheville Watchdog’s 2023 series Selling Asheville was honored Wednesday with an Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism by the Institute for Nonprofit News at its annual awards ceremony in Atlanta.
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WEBAsheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. We believe that high-quality, independent local ...
A future killer slipped through Buncombe's legal system, despite …
WEBAug 19, 2024 · The man responsible for one of the worst crime sprees in recent western North Carolina history slipped through the criminal justice system multiple times over 15 months, despite arrests for attempted murder, assault, and shooting a sheriff’s deputy, and numerous warnings that he may have been in violation of his pretrial release conditions, records show. […]
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WEBWestern North Carolina attracts highly accomplished people of all backgrounds, including award-winning journalists from some of the world’s leading news organizations. Volunteers are indicated with (V), designating those who donate their time supporting local journalism as a community service. The News Team Sally Kestin, investigative reporter, co-founder (V)Former investigative reporter at ...
More than half of Mission's remaining staff neurologists say they …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Three staff neurologists are leaving Mission Hospital by the end of September, potentially leaving only two to provide critical care to hundreds of patients at the Asheville flagship hospital and across western North Carolina, including many who have suffered strokes. The departing physicians are neurohospitalists, specialists who treat patients in the hospital who are suffering […]
Conditions at Asheville's Mission Hospital pose ... - Asheville …
WEBJan 12, 2024 · Mission Hospital risks losing Medicare and Medicaid funding because of deficiencies in care that were so severe, state inspectors concluded last month, that they “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety,” Asheville Watchdog has learned. “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious deficiency possible for a hospital. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human […]
John Boyle Joins Asheville Watchdog News Team
WEBby PETER LEWIS November 1, 2022. John Boyle, the popular veteran reporter and “Answer Man” columnist for the Asheville Citizen Times, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the newspaper to join Asheville Watchdog’s nonprofit local news team. Boyle, a 27-year veteran of covering local news in Asheville and surrounding communities, will ...
Legal case could be costly for PEAK Academy, which was …
WEBJan 8, 2024 · On the surface, it may seem like a legal annoyance, a nuisance case that might require an expensive response from an attorney, then disappear. But the federal civil rights complaint that WNC Citizens for Equality has filed against PEAK Academy alleging racial discrimination against white students and faculty could have serious ramifications for …
Year in Review: The Tragedy of Madison Cawthorn
WEBby TOM FIEDLER December 31, 2022. A campaign video says Cawthorn "planned on serving his country in the Navy with a nomination to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. But all that changed in the spring of 2014 when tragedy struck." [Editor’s Note: As 2022 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most ...