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Henderson County (Nov 30, 2021) - Announcing that he is running for Congress on Tuesday, state Sen. Chuck Edwards urged a supportive crowd at the Historic Courthouse plaza to send him to Washington to do what he’s done in the state Legislature.

After much speculation, three-term Henderson County incumbent Sen. Chuck Edwards made his 14th Congressional District candidacy official with an annou...

Henderson County (Nov 29, 2021) - Asheville businessman Matthew Burril announced his candidacy for the 14th Congressional District, swelling the Republican field to five with more expected.

Saying that he feels he can “offer more to the citizens of Western North Carolina as a senator than as a freshman congressman,” Franklin Republican Ke...

Almost immediately after Rep. Madison Cawthorn announced on Nov. 11 that he’d seek an open seat in the new 13th Congressional District, speculation st...

Republican state senator Kevin Corbin will not run for Congress, and will instead run for re-election to his current office. The first-term senator said

Raised in humble circumstances in Woodfin, Rod Honeycutt could have ended up on a very different path were it not for the United States Army.  Wh...

FLETCHER, North Carolina—A western North Carolina job fair promoting employment opportunities with wages starting at $18 per hour ...