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 […]
CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days […]
RALEIGH — The General Assembly approved a $273 million dollar Hurricane Helene relief package that leadership says will just be the first of many to come as recovery efforts from the storm are likely to […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina State Board of Elections unanimously passed a resolution directed at facilitating voting for certain counties impacted by Hurricane Helene during a meeting on Oct. 7. “We may have to bring […]
SWANNANOA — Rescuers fanned out across the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday in search of anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage to the Southeast, with the death toll […]
ASHEVILLE — Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating. […]
SPRUCE PINE — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene with no reopening date in sight. Sibelco and […]
RALEIGH — In a call with media on Tuesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell addressed voting questions for those living in the areas in the western part of […]
Tech mogul Elon Musk has committed to sending “as many Starlink terminals as possible” to battered Western North Carolina after former President Donald Trump contacted him at the behest of state Sen. Danny Britt. “Yesterday […]
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