Residents downstream of two North Carolina dams were evacuated after reports of a “catastrophic failure” due to flooding from Hurricane Helene. Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

A crisis unfolded in Asheville, North Carolina, as officials pledged to get ... There was a "hoax" that a dam was in danger of failing, which prompted unnecessary evacuations of hundreds of ...

Boiling Spring Lakes Town Manager Gordon Hargrove said there are two big town-wide projects leaning ... a design that has been approved by North Carolina Dam Safety,” Hargrove said.

In Florida’s Big Bend, some lost nearly everything ... the storm hit and continued as lakes overtopped dams, including one in North Carolina that forms a lake featured in the movie “Dirty ...

Before old mill dams are demolished in the North Carolina mountains ... DALTON: They have that big mouth that opens real wide, pulls the water in, sucks the crayfish in with the water, and ...

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