Matt Bush
Matt Bush joined Blue Ridge Public Radio as news director in August 2016. Excited at the opportunity the build up the news service for both stations as well as help launch BPR News, Matt made the jump to Western North Carolina from Washington D.C. For the 8 years prior to coming to Asheville, he worked at the NPR member station in the nation's capital as a reporter and anchor. Matt primarily covered the state of Maryland, including 6 years of covering the statehouse in Annapolis. Prior to that, he worked at WMAL in Washington and Metro Networks in Pittsburgh, the city he was born and raised in.
Matt has a B.A. in broadcasting from Point Park College in Pittsburgh. His M.A. is in media entrepreneurship from American University in D.C. In May 2017, he will graduate from the 35th class of Leadership Asheville at UNC-Asheville.
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A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after a cargo ship crashed into the span early Tuesday morning. It's not clear how many vehicles or people were on the bridge at the time.
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More than a mile of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after it was hit by a cargo ship. At least two people have been pulled from the water.
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Outside of Old Fort, the Western North Carolina railroad bends around Andrews Geyser. The man-made fountain is named after the vice president of the company that owned the railroad, built in the 1870s. Now, the thousands of laborers who did the work are finally memorialized at the site too -
Want to understand why Texans froze this past February, or why California has been racked by wildfire in recent summers? Come to Asheville. It is no exaggeration to say that the answer to every quantifiable question about climate and weather here on Earth and throughout the solar system lies in the more than 40 petabytes of data stored in downtown Asheville's Veach-Baley Federal Complex. -
Removal of the Vance Monument from downtown Asheville's Pack Square can move forward after a Buncombe County judge denied a motion to halt it Monday. -
Asheville City Council voted Tuesday evening to remove the Vance Monument from its spot in the city's main public space. The monument is named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor and U.S. senator. Vance and his family enslaved people prior to the war, and he fought vehemently against full civil rights for Black Americans after it. -
A task force appointed by Asheville City Council and Buncombe County commissioners voted Thursday to recommend the removal of the 65-foot high Vance Monument from downtown Asheville's Pack Square. -
The campus of UNC Asheville will remain under a 'shelter in place' order until further notice after the university received threats over a Black Lives Matter mural painted on campus. -
(UPDATE 10:45 p.m.) Asheville City Council Tuesday night approved a roughly 3% cut to the city police department’s budget. The plan was crafted after... -
Buncombe County commissioners Tuesday evening approved a resolution supporting reparations for the Black community in the county. The resolution –...
