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Officials with the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROWNC) provided an update on Dec. 15 on ongoing recovery efforts, reporting on housing programs, hazard mitigation, and state road conditions more than a year after Hurricane Helene swept through western North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2025 @ 1:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The $78.7 billion in damage that Hurricane Helene inflicted on western North Carolina in September 2024 made it the fifth costliest Atlantic hurricane on record when adjusted for inflation.
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 @ 3:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As western North Carolina continues to recover more than a year later from Hurricane Helene, Gov. Josh Stein’s office has released several announcements in recent days detailing funding for infrastructure repairs.
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 @ 10:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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(RALEIGH) Today Governor Josh Stein, the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW NC), and North Carolina Emergency Management announced that a total of $500,000 in home winterization grants will be awarded to two nonprofit organizations engaged in housing rebuild and repair.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2025 @ 11:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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(RALEIGH) Today Governor Josh Stein and local officials from Buncombe, Ashe, Haywood, Madison, and Rutherford counties traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with the Trump admin and members of Congress about North Carolina’s request for $13.5 billion in new funding for Hurricane Helene recovery.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 2:19 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Two former magistrates in western North Carolina will collect $1.3 million in back pay and other damages related to their resignations over performing same-sex marriage ceremonies.
Published: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina lawmakers have approved another substantial round of aid for western North Carolina communities still grappling with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, pushing total disaster relief funding above $2 billion.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 5:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy was in Haywood County Monday morning to survey Hurricane Helene damage and recovery efforts along I-40 near the Tennessee line.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 @ 6:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Governor Josh Stein has called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to extend the Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program for residents of western North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 2:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent decision in a western North Carolina certificate-of-need legal dispute could affect dozens of other CON cases across the state.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 11:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper expanded the State of Emergency declared on Nov. 8 in response to the ongoing wildfires in Western North Carolina and the continued drought conditions and elevated fire risk throughout the state.
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2024 @ 1:54 pm
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency in response to the ongoing wildfires in Western North Carolina and the continued drought conditions throughout the state.
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 10:03 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded a $10 million grant to The Industrial Commons, an industry focused nonprofit in western North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 2:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This week, Southwestern Child Development announced it will be closing seven child care centers in North Carolina’s westernmost counties effective Oct. 31, 2023.
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 @ 12:14 am
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help prevent the spread of rabies. Starting this week, Wildlife Services will be distributing oral rabies vaccine for wild raccoons in Western North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 3:36 pm
By: ENC NOW
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College to highlight the extreme Republican plans to dismantle public education in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 1:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper traveled to western North Carolina and met with local leaders and community members in Canton who are affected by the closure of the town’s century old paper mill by Illinois packaging conglomerate Pactiv Evergreen.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 3:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help prevent the spread of rabies. Starting next week, Wildlife Services will be distributing oral rabies vaccine for wild raccoons in Western North Carolina.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 12:50 am
By: ENC NOW
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The latest forecast update continues to trend towards a more northern track, with the center of Ian making landfall along the Florida panhandle, and moving north across central Georgia, and western South and North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 6:29 pm
By: ENC NOW
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N.C. Treasurer Folwell Applauds Ruling
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 1:26 pm
By: ENC NOW
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SECU Foundation Provides $40,000 Grant for Animal-Assisted Therapy Program in Western North CarolinaSECU Foundation recently provided a $40,000 grant to TimberKnolls Spirit Cove (TSC), an organization that provides animal-assisted activities and therapy to veterans, military families, first responders, healthcare workers, and people battling illness or trauma.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 11:44 am
By: ENC NOW
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Former US Rep. Charles Taylor, one of the longest-serving Congressmen in Western North Carolina history, today announced his endorsement of State Senator Chuck Edwards.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 11:59 am
By: ENC NOW
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People combatting opioid use disorder in Western North Carolina are gaining expanded access to lifesaving outpatient services.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 2:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With only six weeks till North Carolina’s primary election, legislative and congressional candidates have been working on getting as much attention to their campaign as possible to represent their party this November.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative (NCOHC), a program of the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI), has secured funding to begin tackling the complex needs of people seeking oral health services in western North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A temporary mobile vaccination unit that operated across Western North Carolina since July has ended its operations this week after providing more than 9,300 vaccinations, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced.
Published: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 7:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Robbinsville, in the mountains of western North Carolina, will vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, on the sale of beer and wine in the state’s last dry county. The referendum doesn’t include hard liquor, such as whiskey or vodka.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 9:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of residents from western North Carolina filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 10, against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleging the anti-competitive business practices have driven medical prices up and the quality of health care down in that part of the state.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper has appointed R. Andrew Murray, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, as the acting District Attorney for Prosecutorial District 42, serving Henderson, Polk and Transylvania Counties.
Published: Sunday, May 9th, 2021 @ 5:45 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On a road map, you’ll find Tri-County Community College in the far western corner of North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 1:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The results are in, and voters selected Republican Catherine Truitt, chancellor of Western Governors University N.C., to be North Carolina’s new superintendent of public instruction.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 11:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured MANNA Food Bank in Asheville and thanked volunteers preparing food for families in western North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 @ 5:12 am
By: Governor's Office
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In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 6:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Back in January, Senator Thom Tillis challenged the winner of the Democratic primary to five general election debates, and Cal Cunningham responded ‘bring it on.’
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 @ 10:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released the final report on the public health investigation into an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in people who attended the NC Mountain State Fair held Sept. 6–15, 2019 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletche
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2020 @ 9:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Public health officials are reporting a case of Legionnaires’ disease in a person who did not attend the Mountain State Fair but was present at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center (WNC Ag Center) after the fair ended.
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2019 @ 1:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State and local health officials are continuing an intensive investigation into an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in people who attended the NC Mountain State Fair held Sept. 6–15 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher, NC.
Published: Monday, September 30th, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center celebrated 50 years of recovery services for residents of western North Carolina with a community event held Sept. 21.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2019 @ 1:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you live somewhere other than the western side of North Carolina’s Research Triangle region, you may not have thought that a long-planned light-rail line between Durham and Chapel Hill had much to do with you.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 10:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the CEO of Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital presented Governor Roy Cooper with a resolution “urging the North Carolina General Assembly to expand Medicaid in North Carolina as soon as possible.”
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 10:38 pm
By: Governor's Office
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