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Piles of destroyed homes, businesses and other structures still litter the landscape across western North Carolina as ...

Residents in communities across western North Carolina are still trying to recover in the wake of Hurricane Helene last year, ...

North Carolina House members have advanced a Republican package to boost state recovery funding after Hurricane Helene by ...

North Carolina’s attorney general warned in a new court document that a federal funding freeze enacted by the Trump ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Two North Carolina locals who survived Hurricane Helene in September but suffered massive losses from the storm shared a single phrase from President Donald Trump that stuck ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – President Donald Trump's Jan. 24 visit to western North Carolina — his second since Hurricane Helene destroyed large swaths of the Southeast on Sept. 27 and his first visit ...

President Trump’s tour of western North Carolina on Friday returned a much-needed spotlight to devastated mountain communities where, four months since Hurricane Helene, thousands still lack basic ...

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