Eight months after Hurricane Helene, communities in western North Carolina still see evidence of the storm's destruction. For ...

Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy ...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — On Monday, June 2, Benny and Keva Messer sat quietly on their new front porch with their adult daughter, Amy in Waynesville. Close to 100 people gathered to celebrate the ...

Right now, all traffic on I-40 in western North Carolina is traveling on two lanes after the other two lanes were washed out ...

“Contractors are being rejected” from providing Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina because of racial “quotas” required by the state. State law lays out a "goal," not a hard quota, for ...

Every day." More than 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in North Carolina, some 500 miles inland from where it came ashore in Florida. Dozens of people drowned in Helene's floodwaters.

Only six out of 1,000 state-purchased housing trailers have been occupied so far, while nearly seven months after Helene, ...

Columbus, said the state's minority-owned businesses guidelines are hindering its ability to hire contractors to help with ...

A Black Mountain community held a Road to Recovery Groundbreaking Ceremony on Tuesday, June 3, marking a big step forward for the area eight months after Helene ...

It was shortly after Hurricane Helene was gone that the US Army Corps of Engineers showed up to begin the cleaning process.

Seven months after Hurricane Helene brought devastating flooding to Chimney Rock, N.C., the community is still cleaning ...