USA TODAY spoke with National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan about what you should do to prepare for hurricane ...

Residents of Brevard’s Cherry Street neighborhood are still in RVs, carrying two mortgages, or living in construction zones.

Preparation can spare you time and stress if your personal identification papers are lost after a wildfire or other natural ...

Thankfully, western North Carolina didn’t wait on the bureaucracy for assistance. When FEMA faltered, first responders ...

A group of Charlotte middle schoolers first banded together when they were in elementary school. They formed a local ...

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for ...

The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and N.C. State Parks announced today that Chimney Rock State Park and ...

Chimney Rock State Park is set to reopen to visitors on Friday, June 27, exactly nine months after Hurricane Helene caused ...

When federal resources aren’t certain, personal and local preparedness becomes all that more important,” Stein said. “The ...

Rep. Chuck Edwards said his office responded to concerns over improper debris removal by creating an "action plan" with FEMA.

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.