Graham County News

Nearly than 32,000 Progress Energy customers in Buncombe County are without power tonight.

Four rural Western North Carolina schools are among the top high schools in the country for excelling on state tests, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2010 America's Best High Schools list.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday testing when whistle-blowers who discover fraud in federal programs may sue in the name of the United States and collect some of the settlement.

A cool front moving through the area today, an approaching warm front from the southwest and a low pressure system possibly moving over the area this weekend will bring changing weather to the coastal Carolinas this week, according to the National Weather Service.. Today is expected to be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 60s.

A hydroelectric power plant on the Little Tennessee River will get up to $13 million in federal stimulus money to help upgrade equipment.

The Graham County Department of Public Health will be holding an H1N1 vaccination clinic from 1-4 p.m. tomorrow.

An overwhelming majority of citizens who showed up at a public hearing in Robbinsville spoke out against the Corridor K road project last Thursday .

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North Carolina continues to have a high unemployment rate with two-thirds of the counties in the state running into double digits.

Two Western North Carolina counties will have to report financial information to the state each month as the recession continues to take its toll on tax revenues.

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold three open houses and a public hearing on the proposed relocation of U.S. 74 from U.S. 129 in Robbinsville to N.C. 28 in Stecoah.

Here's the link to the DailyWireless.org post: The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion in stimulus funds for broadband Internet connections, reports the Associated Press .

A road project known as Corridor K will boast the longest tunnel in the state of North Carolina if built as planned: a 2,807-foot passage through the side of a mountain in the Stecoah area of Graham County.

Motorcyclists in western North Carolina should take note. Beginning next year, emergency help on the Swain County route known as the "Tail of the Dragon" will take longer to arrive.

Local elected officials are calling on the General Assembly and Congress to change how they fund the construction of an unfinished network of Appalachian highways.

Few roads wind through the mountains in Graham County, making it easily overlooked in the state's rush to spend millions in federal highway stimulus dollars.

On a rainy Friday in the Nantahala Gorge, the speed of commerce in far-western North Carolina drops to 15 mph.

N.C. Highway Patrol troopers are investigating accidents in Henderson and Graham counties.

Motorcyclists on some of Western North Carolina's most popular biking destinations can expect to soon see state troopers riding alongside them.

Published: Friday, August 28, 2009 at 10:46 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 28, 2009 at 10:46 a.m. Unemployment rates dropped in nearly 60 percent of the counties in North Carolina in July.