🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
On Monday, the new director of McDowell County tourism introduced himself to the County Commission.
Based on unofficial results, the McDowell County Board of Education appears to have gained three new members in the 2022 election. But the makeup of the board could depend on one contested seat where only six votes separated the challengers.
N.C. House District 85, Democratic candidate.
N.C. Senate District 46, Republican candidate.
Note: Incumbent Commissioner Tony Brown chose not to participate.
Sheriff of McDowell County, unaffiliated candidate
Foothills Regional Commission, which includes McDowell, Cleveland, Polk and Rutherford counties, is one of 23 host sites statewide for the Lead for North Carolina (LFNC) program, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government.
At this week’s meeting, the McDowell County Board of Commissioners heard a presentation about the regional Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) from the N.C. Department of Transportation.
"Someday in a more enlightened future, we will have a memorial day commemorating school children lost to mass shootings," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
Missouri senators Mike Moon and Denny Hoskins, both Republicans, talked about furries and a TikTok video showing a person who described themselves as a “fish” during debate about transgender athletes on Monday, May 2, 2022. Audio courtesy of the Missouri Senate.
Michael Gableman "has a bizarre fixation with the jewelry and appearance of the women he is supposedly investigating," Wisconsin Elections Commission Democratic chair Ann Jacobs said Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican from Hendersonville, won a major court victory Friday when a federal judge ruled that voters shouldn’t be allowed to try to have him ruled ineligible to run for office. A group of voters from Cawthorn’s district in far-western North Carolina had filed a challenge with the State Board of Elections, claiming that Cawthorn should be banned from the ballot ...
The commission's vote complies with a Friday ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that the free-standing, mailbox-like drop boxes would no longer be allowed outside of local clerk's offices after Tuesday's spring primary.
2021 was another big year in Wisconsin politics. Sen. Ron Johnson said some things. Voters elected a new state superintendent. Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans clashed over mask mandates. Michael Gableman threatened to jail the mayors of Madison and Green Bay. Here are 10 political stories yo…
Gableman has asked the court, which plans to take up the matter on Dec. 22, to compel the two mayors to meet with him.
Here is a link to the North Carolina Board of Elections website for races in McDowell County. Polls close at 7:30 p.m. and results will show up after that. Click here to follow along.
Fort McCoy officials acknowledge there were initial problems with food supply, but that and other issues are being addressed.
"I wouldn’t run if I don’t think I could win," said Johnson, who is undecided on a re-election bid.
The Greenwood Rising History Center building is complete. Now comes the hard part — filling it with stories.
ATLANTA — On Friday, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Tracy Swartout as the new superintendent of Blue Ridge Parkway, effective May 23.
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Since the start of the outbreak, Gov. Tony Evers has issued multiple public health emergencies and a series of related orders.
Limbaugh died Wednesday at 70.
Sen. Ron slammed the impeachment over the weekend as “vindictive and divisive,” and possibly a “diversionary operation” by Democrats to distract from security lapses at the U.S. Capitol.
The idea is in its infancy and all options, including declining to pursue anything, are on the table.
Deborah Kerr said she has also voted for Republicans and tells GOP audiences on the campaign trail for the officially nonpartisan race that she is a "pragmatic Democrat."
With a new order announced, Republicans may be forced to start the process all over again to vote down the governor's emergency order and accompanying mask mandate, but the most likely outcome appears to be an eventual court decision.
As an old speechwriter, I’m a close reader of political speeches. Especially important speeches, like Gov. Roy Cooper’s inaugural address.
RALEIGH— Former McDowell County Commissioner and state House Rep. Josh Dobson has begun his new role as state labor commissioner.