BPR is answering listener queries about the Coronavirus in a new segment – Talk to Us: COVID Questions . BPR’s Helen Chickering brings us this week’s answer. This week's question comes from Dr. Penny Brewster of Franklin.

Buncombe County Commissioners will wait until later this month to vote on a non-discrimination ordinance. It would be the first such county ordinance in Western North Carolina since local governments were allowed to pass them in December 2020 .

BPR is answering listener queries about the Coronavirus in a new segment – Talk to Us: COVID Questions . BPR’s Helen Chickering brings us this week’s answer.

Rusell Dinkins ran track at Princeton. He knows firsthand how the sport can help Black athletes get into college. That's why he's made it his mission to stop universities from around the country from cutting track & field and cross country programs - like at Brown , William & Mary, and Minnesota. Dinkins joins our hosts to talk about his latest fight - to save track & field at Clemson #SaveClemsonXCTF (Music featured includes Skip Street by Chad Crouch)

A race in Haywood County this weekend raises money for survivors of gun violence and honors a fallen hometown hero. The Mighty Four Miler on Saturday morning supports the Riley Howell Foundation Fund . It’s been almost two years now since Riley Howell, a Waynesville native, was killed during a shooting at UNC Charlotte. “It helps us remember Riley and who he was – and it hopefully means that he wasn’t defined by what happened at UNC Charlotte. And it helps us raise more money to help more people

One Western North Carolina Republican wants North Carolina to expand Medicaid. State and local representatives – mostly Republicans - gathered at Southwestern Community College to talk about the need to “close the health coverage gap.” Sarah Thompson, executive director of the Southwestern Commission explains what that gap is: “The coverage gap refers to people who do not qualify for Medicaid because they earn too much to qualify but they make too little to qualify for a subsidy in the private

North Carolina now is now under a new – less restrictive - pandemic executive order, an updated COVID vaccine schedule. And somewhere in-between in all – Governor Roy Cooper revealed announced his budget plan with a renewed push for Medicaid expansion. It is a good time for our check-in with North Carolina Health News editor , Rose Hoban.

COVID-19 has altered our lives in numerous ways: from work to school to staying connected to friends and family. While the country processes a year of loss and uncertainty, many are reflecting on how the pandemic has changed them. For BPR and Foxfire’s COVID oral history project , we hear from Asheville resident Ann Goosmann, interviewed by her son George, a student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Learn how you can share your experiences during the pandemic with BPR & Foxfire’s oral history guide. The

This week, Asheville City Council voted to remove the Vance Monument from Pack Square, following the recommendation made by a task force of community members. Our hosts talk with the youngest member of that task force Savannah Gibson.

BPR is answering listener queries about the Coronavirus in a new segment – Talk to Us: COVID Questions . BPR’s Helen Chickering brings us this week’s answer. This week's question comes from Emma Rodriguez of Henderson County. “After getting the COVID-19 vaccine, if I get tested for COVID-19, will the test come out positive?”