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The governor said he plans to spend each day this week doing things like whitewater rafting, hiking, mountain biking and visiting local restaurants.
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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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The withdrawal accounts for nearly half of the soldiers sent to Los Angeles in June to suppress protests over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.
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The town plans to purchase and redevelop part of the former Pactiv Evergreen paper mill site. -
Police were called for a welfare check on a person, who deputies say opened fire at them in a Pizza Hut parking lot. -
The North Carolina State Board of Elections made appointments to all 100 county boards of elections at the beginning of July, what does that mean for Western North Carolina. -
The Energy Saver North Carolina program offers free and reduced-cost home energy efficiency upgrades to residents of 15 counties, including Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell. -
A fifth round of Hurricane Helene recovery money was recently approved by the state legislature. Here's what the $1.5 billion dollar package will go towards. -
“The Resonance Sessions” is a compilation of 35 songs that were recorded in the then-dusty, flood-damaged Old Marshall Jail along the French Broad River. -
There are more than 50,000 unique items in the private collection, hidden in the mansion. -
The rezoning has been years in the making and was slightly derailed after Hurricane Helene. -
Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Community Center pool, Asheville's only public pool, is reopening July 4 weekend after temporarily closingdue to a recent incident with a firearm. -
The angling industry and its conservationists are handling storm damage and looking towards the future.
