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AAA says the average price of gasoline nationwide has dropped to just over $3 per gallon.
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City planning meetings are important, but they can be very boring. To encourage input, Boulder, Colorado, is letting the public add photos and other media to an interactive map of changes they want.
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What you need to know from the Nov. 18 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting -
Asheville City Councilmember Kim Roney introduced a resolution on Monday that would block the use of city property for civil immigration enforcement. The proposal says no city-owned facility, lot or park could be used as a staging area, processing location or operations base for civil immigration enforcement. -
After a difficult year, visitor data shows that tourism has been looking up this fall. -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection started operations in Charlotte over the weekend. Western North Carolina residents hit the streets in downtown Asheville to protest. -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents may target the city of Asheville, according to a Facebook post Friday afternoon from Mayor Esther Manheimer. This latest news comes a day after Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden confirmed that CBP agents could start immigration operations in Charlotte as soon as Saturday. -
Western North Carolinians could see their SNAP benefits restored tomorrow. While volunteering at Asheville’s MANNA Food Bank on Thursday, Stein presented the food bank with a $585,000 check, its portion of nearly $22 million in state funds and donations raised to help with food relief during the shutdown.
