Footage from a Swannanoa resident’s third-floor apartment highlights the damage from Hurricane Helene in Asheville, where floodwaters destroyed the building housing the Asheville Tea Company, though all employees are safe. The city remains without water and power, with significant devastation reported in the Biltmore Village area.

A multiagency investigation lasting a year and a half came to a head Thursday with the arrest of five people, two of whom face felony charges of manufacturing and delivering methamphetamine. Several law enforcement agencies armed with a search warrant raided a property on Smetana Road in Bryan where they made the arrests and confiscated drugs and a stolen firearm.

One man has been arrested, and more than $250,000 in narcotics have been seized as a result of a major drug trafficking bust in Lynchburg.

Officials at the Lummi nation say this week’s arrests in a drug ring linked to recent overdose deaths could offer a measure of justice.

Seventeen people were arrested across the country Wednesday on charges in a multi-state drug trafficking ring allegedly linked to a string of fatal overdoses on Lummi Nation last September. The drug ring,

One of the people indicted is a well-known Seattle anti-gun advocate who was the director of a violence prevention group.

Four tribal members died of fentanyl overdose within a period of just four days last September, prompting the Lummi Indian Business Council to declare a state of emergency in response to the escalating fentanyl crisis.