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Stay informed with our Friday text message roundup of regional news with a special focus on growth and recovery after Hurricane Helene.
Stay on the pulse of the decisions being made at meetings for Asheville City Council and Buncombe County Commission, with reports from BPR’s Laura Hackett.
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Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri talks about his mission to hold tech companies accountable even as they try to align themselves with President Donald Trump.
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The detainees were part of a group of some 300 Uyghurs who fled China and were arrested in Thailand in 2014. Thailand deported more than 100 of them to China in 2015, drawing condemnation.
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What you need to know from the April 1 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting. -
The new grant program is one of several aimed at small business recovery after Hurricane Helene. -
During Helene, 187,000 acres of national forest were blown down and some believe that logging will hurt the forest's recovery. -
The survey, spearheaded by CDC officials for communities with severe and high-profile threats to public health, was canceled one day before its kickoff. -
Some Forest Service workers supporting the fight against wildfires across Western North Carolina were reinstated by the Trump administration just before the crisis. Others are still waiting to be onboarded. -
The disaster management agency will no longer enforce an Obama-era rule requiring federally-funded disaster rebuilds to consider climate risk. -
City staff are moving closer to presenting their disaster recovery plan to City Council after wrapping up their third and final listening session this week. -
The governor signed a proclamation honoring the 106 North Carolinians killed by the storm and met with local residents who lost their loved ones. -
The Eastern Band of Cherokee will host a lunch of local ramps and rainbow trout to kick off the season. -
Individuals who were displaced by the storm and were living in hotels paid for by FEMA made up more than two-thirds of this year’s total.
