As high school and college programs are launching across the state, the YMCA of WNC is adding a new recreation league for high school girls into the mix.
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Soap box derbies send motorless cars down a steep incline. At one event, contestants make their cars look like cartoon characters, subway cars, food, and giant animals (among other outlandish shapes).
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The unemployment rate for young adults with new degrees is higher than the rate for all workers, according to the New York Fed. Is AI the problem, or is it more complicated?
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An NIH grant will fund an unconventional strategy at UNC Asheville against drug-resistant bacteria and it's undergraduates, not graduate students, are doing the lab work.
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What you need to know from the Aug. 4 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting.
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The news comes after the House Ethics Committee recommended Edwards be censured for inappropriate conduct toward two female staffers.
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New data shows that trauma, loss of housing, and interruption to opioid treatment services all have lasting tragic impacts.
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The congressman sent the staffers “lavish” gifts, invited them to “intimate dinners and vacations” and sent them notes about his “effusive affection” for them, according to the panel.
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What you need to know from the July 28 Asheville City Council meeting