Prior to WPTV, Kate worked in New Bern ... stranger to hurricanes: she started her reporting journey at WCTI 12 in FEMA trailers after Hurricane Florence devastated the North Carolina coast.

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

North Carolina officials pledged ... cyclones sometimes within hours. A new tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic Ocean could become a “formidable hurricane” later this week, the ...

Helene hit North Carolina as a tropical storm on Sept. 27, 2024, leaving death and destruction across the state. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...