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Buncombe County’s labor market is continuing its slow recovery from Hurricane Helene, although the leisure and hospitality sector remains hard hit. ⁦Blue Ridge Public Radio⁩ bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-…

USDA Forest Service opens eight miles of new trails, new parking in Old Fort citizen-times.com/story/news/loc…

COMING SOON! Front Porch Politics Wednesday night at 8! This time marks five years since George Floyd's death, protests, and his North Carolina funeral. 5 years later we reconnect with 3 people to check in on the lives and thoughts on where this nation is 5 years later.

Good news and bad news for Buncombe short-term rental owners post-Helene. By me for ⁦Blue Ridge Public Radio⁩: bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-…

Breaking: A section of the Blue Ridge Parkway was temporarily closed on Sunday after the discovery of an “improvised incendiary device,” according to the National Park Service. bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-…

At least 27 people were killed and dozens more injured by Israeli forces as they waited to collect humanitarian aid at a distribution center in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Read more: goodmorningamerica.visitlink.me/ngoKxU

Local businesses out west have been so resilient after Hurricane Helene. We stopped by a few in West Jefferson and Lansing yesterday-they should be on your list of places to shop on your next visit to western NC! 👇

Addiction to screentime and the non-stop barrage of notifications rob our children of precious time to learn from their teachers during the school day. I support legislation to put an end to cell phone use during school hours in all Ohio school districts, to give the precious

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Amerie’s Tiny Desk Concert is the perfect way to kick off the summer

For months I’ve been recording conversations w immigrants in ICE detention. A pattern emerged: lack of food, sleeping on the floor, illnesses/no meds. In this recording, an asylum seeker in Florida detention tells his mother he can’t do it anymore, he has asked for deportation

You can read/listen to our full reporting here: npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-… The photo used in this video is from a recent protest outside Krome (Giorgio Viera/AFP).

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared in a Tennessee courtroom Friday, hours after he was brought back to the U.S. to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants. abcnews.link/X50YLYg

In loving memory of Jennifer Lyell. Until we meet again.

I wrote this one through tears, and through inexpressible anger. I'm so sorry, Jennifer. open.substack.com/pub/kristindum…

“When a willing victim, who has committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead … the Table would crack and death itself would start working backwards.” christianitytoday.com/2025/06/died-s…

Repairing all of North Carolina’s roads, highways and bridges damaged by Hurricane Helene will cost about $5 billion: bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-…

Sen. Thom Tillis avoids censure at this weekends NCGOP convention. #ncpol newsobserver.com/news/politics-…

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