Felicia Sonmez
Growth and Development ReporterFelicia Sonmez is a reporter covering growth and development for Blue Ridge Public Radio.
Prior to joining BPR, Felicia worked for more than a dozen years as a print journalist, including as a national political reporter for The Washington Post. From 2013 to 2018, she was based in Beijing, where she worked as a China correspondent for the international wire service Agence France-Presse and as an editor for The Wall Street Journal. She also spent a year in advanced Chinese language study as a Blakemore Fellow at Tsinghua University.
A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, Felicia graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Government. She loves hiking, backpacking and listening to live music. She is the proud owner of a tuxedo cat named Yogurt.
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Attorney General Jeff Jackson said North Carolina will “get back the $17 million that Congress promised.” -
'We have to be better prepared:' Stein highlights $270 million in water infrastructure funds for WNCNearly five-dozen water and septic system projects in 26 western counties will receive funding through the state Department of Environmental Quality. -
The county’s unemployment rate was 3.7% in September. But the leisure and hospitality industry is still struggling. -
Two central themes of the hearing at A-B Tech were competition and access to care. -
News of the funding’s release comes one day after U.S. Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis (R) released their holds on some of President Trump’s Homeland Security nominees. -
The classification comes even as the hospital continues to face scrutiny over patient safety and complaints of understaffing.
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A group of nonprofits bought the land in June to build the 31.5-mile trail. Now the work begins in earnest. -
Mission must still submit a plan for correction and go through another inspection by state surveyors in the coming months.
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The 20-mile trail connects Pisgah National Forest with Bracken Preserve and the City of Brevard. -
Local officials have pushed to transform the county into a destination for hikers, mountain bikers and other outdoor adventurers.
