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When a small group of concerned citizens turned up to the most recent Haywood County Board of Commissioners meeting, it sounded as though they were in...

Hours earlier, Natasha Bright had been trapped atop a bunk bed in a barricaded bedroom with her dogs, her cats and her brother, watching the floodwate...

Speaker of the House Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, recently appointed House Majority Leader John Bell IV, R-Goldsboro, to serve as one of the co-chairs of the newly formed Subcommittee on Hurricane

North Carolina legislative subcommittee to investigate ReBuild NC's mismanagement of Hurricane Matthew recovery program

The United States Supreme Court shocked the world during its last term, issuing several rulings that had most conservatives cheering and liberals mour...

A bill advanced by Rep. Mark Pless (R-Haywood) to make school board and municipal elections in Haywood County partisan has fallen short, but could eve...

Energized by recent Supreme Court rulings and eager to remake North Carolina in their own image, members of the N.C. House Freedom Caucus held a “rall...

Both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly approved the state’s $28 billion fiscal year 2022-23 budget last week, but as Gov. Roy Cooper nea...

Across Western North Carolina, protesters took to the streets in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to an abortion. BPR was at one march in Sylva.

A much-needed, much-lamented bridge replacement project planned for U.S. 74 in Haywood County will be postponed, per a June 10 statement from North Ca...