SPRUCE PINE — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene has resumed […]
Like just about everything else, the recent hurricanes that have hit the southeastern United States have been fertile ground for presidential politicking. Florida has experienced three hurricanes since August: Hurricane Debby in August, Hurricane Helene […]
RALEIGH — The General Assembly approved a $273 million Hurricane Helene relief package that leadership says will be just the first of many, as recovery efforts from the storm will likely span years into the […]
RALEIGH — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday helped pack diapers into boxes of personal care products destined for North Carolina hurricane victims, agreeing with one helper who said “it takes a village.” “You’re exactly […]
Flooding triggered by Hurricane Helene hit a Baxter International plant in North Cove that makes much of the country’s supply of sterile intravenous, or IV, fluids, which are also used by some patients on home […]
CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE — The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and […]
ASHEVILLE — A well-known Asheville musical tradition returned last Friday night, a sign of hopefulness a week after Helene battered the mountain city. The Asheville Drum Circle had its first regular Friday night session since […]
While hospitals and health care organizations in the Southeast largely stayed open and functioning during Hurricane Helene to provide essential care for their communities, they were not unscathed. The massive system battered the region’s health […]
VILAS — Brad Farrington pulls over to grab a case of water bottles being passed out in Vilas, a small rural community tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He’s on his way to help […]
As things go with any hurricane, you pray the paths that are projected aren’t accurate, that they’ll fizzle out at sea with no harm done to life and land, and that at the end of […]
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