A new noise ordinance in Asheville goes into effect in mid-September. For the first time in 20 years, City Council on Tuesday approved ceilings and sp...

A more than a year-long investigation into Mountaire Farms poultry plant in Siler City, NC found a common hiring practice is making an already dangero...

For some artists, the pandemic was a time for creation and reflection. As part of BPR and Foxfire Museum's oral history project Jackson County poet Lo...

For some artists, the pandemic was a time for creation and reflection. As part of BPR and Foxfire Museum's oral history project Jackson County poet Lo...

The State Department of Transportation is re-evaluating a controversial road project in Haywood County after criticism from residents and municipaliti...

News of over 1000 unmarked graves of children found at an indigenous residential school in Canada hit home for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee...

Homelessness was the key issue in the most recent municipal elections in Haywood County. In late 2019, newly-elected leaders in the Town of Waynesvill...

Supporters say they will keep showing up until the tribal council for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hears their call to recognize same-sex marr...

Right now, the mountains of Western North Carolina are in the thick(et) of berry season. BPR reports on the history of fruit picking in our region: Fa...

Town Branch, also called Nasty Branch, is the longest creek that flows through Asheville. It's also the most polluted. Environmentalists and residents...