we had initially deployed to Spruce Pine in November for one week, not long after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina with massive flooding and wind. We returned five months later ...

A Wilmington church group returned to Spruce Pine, NC, several months after Hurricane Helene to continue relief work. The group focused on restoring a single home in Hawk, NC, repairing flood ...

We are heading into this hurricane season with more uncertainty than usual,” Stein said, because funding for FEMA and NOAA ...

The small town of Spruce Pine in North Carolina (population approximately 2,000) is an unlikely pinch point for the global ...

Residents have a saying in Spruce Pine, that a piece of their home is in tech across the globe. But could geopolitical tensions hurt their mining tradition, and their lucrative quartz business?

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

Legislators are working on a new bill to help western North Carolina recover from Hurricane ... for Helene relief in their budget proposal. At the time, Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Spruce Pine, said ...

Roughly seven months after Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, federal and state grant programs were rolled out to help the area.

No other place on Earth has as much or as minable pure quartz as Spruce Pine, in western North Carolina ... But after Hurricane Helene swept through the area last year, the companies helped ...

With hurricane season officially underway, Senator (R-NC) has introduced legislation to replenish the Disaster Relief Fund ...