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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After about 15 years of planning, Bryson City is finally breaking ground on the expansion of the Marianna Black Library. The move comes as Jackson County is considering leaving the three-county regional library system. -
Unofficial results show that five candidates not currently on Tribal Council will be entering the Council House in October - including four women. -
A drag pageant at Jackson County Public Library on Sunday was a flashpoint of the current debate about the Fontana Regional Library System. Over 125 people participated in a read-in to support the library, vastly outnumbering protestors. -
Swain County Board of Commission Chairman Kevin Seagle was absent at Tuesday night’s county commission meeting. His resignation is effective Aug. 31. -
After three years of legal action, Mission Health and HCA Healthcare announced it has settled a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by Buncombe and Madison Counties along with the Cities of Asheville and Brevard. The lawsuit alleged that the for-profit hospital system has a monopoly on health care in the region which created an “anti-competitive” market that harmed access to health care. -
NC-11 Democrats have changed the speaker line-up for an upcoming fundraiser after controversy surrounding local leaders inviting a single primary contender to headline the event. -
Tribal members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee took to the polls on July 17 to select candidates who will be part of the General Election in September.
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Beloved Asheville, Mountain Core Mission and Asheville Independent Restaurant Association are a few of the organizations that were drawn to help Texas after seeing how similar the flooding was to the devastation of Hurricane Helene. -
In one case, a truck driver delivering recovery construction supplies died in a road accident in June. The Hurricane Helene death toll in North Carolina now stands at 108 people. -
Haywood County has confirmed 12 cases of whooping cough. Most cases are in children and teens.
