Lilly Knoepp
Senior Regional ReporterLilly Knoepp is Senior Regional Reporter for Blue Ridge Public Radio. She has served as BPR’s first fulltime reporter covering Western North Carolina since 2018. She is a native of Franklin, NC who returns to WNC after serving as the assistant editor of Women@Forbes and digital producer of the Forbes podcast network. She holds a master’s degree in international journalism from the City University of New York and earned a double major from UNC-Chapel Hill in religious studies and political science.
Email: lknoepp@bpr.org
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Local outdoorsman and Macon County resident Doug Woodward shared a story about the former president on a particularly challenging run on the Chattooga River in 1974. -
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, loss has been a part of the storm recovery for many people in the region. BPR talks with Holly Kays for The Assembly about one Yancey County musician who is among those who are still missing after the storm. -
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ chief expressed disappointment in the U.S. House passing a bill that would extend federal recognition and sovereignty to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. -
A legacy of governmental action created fertile ground for distrust after Hurricane Helene. -
Democrats Governor-elect Josh Stein and current Governor Roy Cooper are jointly suing GOP-lawmakers over the newly-passed Senate bill 382. The lawsuit focuses on issues with “separation of powers” and focuses on the changes to position of the head of the highway patrol. -
Democrats call the bill passed by the House a “power grab” that doesn’t give enough help to the region that was devastated by Helene. -
Mission Hospital and other HCA facilities have rejoined Asheville’s municipal water supply and are no longer trucking in water or relying on well water, officials announced Monday. -
Vice President-Elect J.D. Vance on Friday met with local first responders and firefighters in Fairview who lost members of their community during Hurricane Helene. -
More than 4,500 people across 25 North Carolina counties are in FEMA transitional sheltering housing units.
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We talked with residents across Western North Carolina to ask them what they were grateful for during Thanksgiving 2024.
