Hyper-Reach connects citizens to Emergency Announcements and Alerts. You must register to receive alerts. When registering you can choose how alerts are received, by email, text, phone call. Use this link to sign up. ...(more)
The Blue Ridge Parkway between Craggy Gardens Picnic Area and Mount Mitchell has reopened allowing visitor access to the entire motor road in North Carolina as of today. Most of Virginia has been and remains open as well for driving, hiking and outdoor recreation with the exception of the northern-most 13 miles When out in the park please remember the following to ensure a safe ...(more)
McDowell County deputies have arrested and charged a Spruce Pine man with three counts of statutory rape of a child by an adult. According to authorities, twenty-two year old Brandon Michael Jarrett, of Washburn Road in Spruce Pine, had a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl between 2018 and 2019. Deputies say that during that time Jarrett was 20-years-old and the victim was an ...(more)
Toe River Health District announced two more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Yancey County as well as the first confirmed case for Avery County. Avery County has been preparing for this reality and anticipated that our community would likely be impacted at some point. Public health staff have already initiated an investigation and have identified close contacts to contain the spread of disease. ...(more)
Bobby Ralph Williams, 45, of 107 Carl Smith Rd., Elizabethtown, TN. Deputy R. Bishop arrested Williams for felony possession of Methamphetamine, misdemeanor driving with a revoked driver’s license, failure to appear in Pender County court for numerous traffic related offenses, failure to appear in Buncombe County court for resisting public officer, failure to appear in court for fictions ...(more)
Most churches continued with online services this week as a federal judge in North Carolina on Saturday sided with conservative Christian leaders and blocked the enforcement of restrictions that Gov. Roy Cooper ordered affecting indoor religious services during the coronavirus pandemic. The order from Judge James C. Dever III came days after two Baptist churches, a minister and a Christian ...(more)
