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The state, which has cut income taxes with more cuts scheduled, is on a path to a greater than 10% budget deficit in three ...
Downed timber left in the wake of Hurricane Helene, a devastating storm that struck in September, has also been fueling the fires' spread, officials have said. “The amount of downed debris and ...
Danger is already brewing The National Hurricane Center's report on the horrific storm found it claimed the lives of 248 people and caused $78.7 billion in damage. All along Helene's path ...
Following the destruction and shock Tropical Storm Helene left in Western North Carolina, many area residents may be dreading the start of 2025's Atlantic hurricane season. In 2024, there were ...
The Hurricane Helene Business Edge Fund will offer $500,000 in grant funding for local workforce boards serving the Western North Carolina counties that were most impacted by the storm ...
Hurricane Helene landed on the Florida Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 4 storm. Early models projected the storm’s northward trek ... 26, Helene took a sharp turn to the east, veering off its ...
In the immediate wake of Tropical Storm Helene, our currencies were food, water, gas and sweat equity. Cash, credit cards? Useless. There was nowhere to buy anything. Greetings turned from ...
Hurricane Helene survivor Mona Roper is calling for FEMA to be eliminated six months after the storm brought landslides and historic flooding to the Appalachian communities of western North Carolina.
It was also the third-costliest on record, after 2017 and 2005. With a U.S. death toll of at least 241, Hurricane Helene was the continental United States’ deadliest single storm since Hurricane ...
OLD FORT, N.C. — Six months after Hurricane Helene, they still have public showers set up in the middle of Old Fort for people who need them. WFMY News 2's Ben Briscoe spoke to one woman who not ...