Laurel Park
Politics
Mandatory evacuation issued in Asheville from Balsam Road to Highway 70
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A mandatory evacuation has been issued near Balsam Road in Asheville. The flooding of a lake with a dam at Camp Crestridge for Girls caused the mandatory evacuation order. The evacuation is in effect for 105 Balsam Road from the camp south to Highway 70 in Black Mountain.
VOTE411.org helps prepare Henderson County citizens to make best choice when voting
The League of Women Voters’ nonpartisan, online voter guide — VOTE411.org — is available for use by Henderson County, Flat Rock, Fletcher, Hendersonville, Laurel Park, Mills River, Saluda, Henderson County, residents as they prepare to cast their ballots in the Nov. 5 general elections, with early-voting beginning Oct. 17. VOTE411.org provides voters access to information on every candidate for office at local, state and national levels. Voters enter their physical address and click through to research the...
Tropical Storm Helene: Mandatory evacuation order for areas along Swannanoa River
ASHEVILLE - In response to the escalating threat posed by Tropical Storm Helene, Buncombe County officials have issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents along the Swannanoa River immediately beginning at the North Fork Reservoir, where waters have gone over the spillway. Hurricane Helene was downgraded to a tropical storm at 5 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, as it headed up Georgia and toward Western North Carolina. ...
Hurricane Helene: Biden approves federal emergency declaration for NC
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for North Carolina Sept. 26 in response to emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Helene. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in a Sept. 26 news release that federal disaster assistance is available to the state to supplement response efforts. Helene is predicted to hit Western North Carolina as...
Buncombe County officials urge residents to stay in and conserve resources
At a press conference Saturday morning, Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder acknowledged that many people in the area are without cell service and waiting anxiously to hear from loved ones. “We beg you to please not call our 911 centers with questions," Pinder said. The county plans to open a...
RAW: NC: LARGE TREE DAMAGES APT BUILDING, CAR
A fallen tree damaged an apartment building and a car in Asheville, North Carolina on Thursday. COPYRIGHT 2024 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.
Across Asheville, anxious residents brace for impending arrival of Hurricane Helene
It's the calm before the storm but people in Biltmore Village are bracing for the worst."Well, you know, I'm kind of in a place of like shock and awe and also how do you protect," said David Ross, a Biltmore Village resident. "So, like I'm in that place of like trying to do the best you can."When Ross saw the forecast -- with the river expected to crest -- he quickly got to work boarding up an Indian restaurant housed in his building and protecting what they could from inside by putting it in trucks.Across western North Carolina, people anxiously...
Tropical Storm Helene evacuees head to Harrah's Cherokee downtown Asheville for shelter
ASHEVILLE - Rebecca Casey, 80, of Swannanoa, made it to the emergency shelter at Harrah’s Cherokee Center just after 8:30 a.m. Sept. 27 with help from a friendly stranger. Casey, who lives on the campus of Warren Wilson College, evacuated to the Quality Inn on Tunnel Road Sept. 26. She told the Citizen...
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.