In Burke County, officials received about 20 calls for illegal burns while firefighters from departments across Burke, ...

McDowell County students are set to return to class marking the last district to reopen as the community deals with recovery and cleanup from floods that impacted the region on Feb. 15 ...

welch — McDowell County students were welcomed back to class Monday as the school system worked to address their emotional needs following the devastating Feb. 15 flood. All of McDowell County ...

McDowell County Emergency Management said the plane ... the plane took off around 8:29 p.m. from Mountain City, Tennessee, on Sunday, July 7, and was last seen around Rutherfordton, North Carolina ...

welch — FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance teams have started reaching out in McDowell County by going door-to-door and helping people affected by the Feb. 15 flooding which struck much of ...

WELCH, W.Va. (WCHS) — The nation's top Federal Emergency Management Agency official traveled to McDowell County Friday afternoon in response to the deadly, destructive flooding that hit there in ...

Michael Brooks Prior to that day, longtime residents of McDowell County measured high water events by the years of 1977, 2001 and 2002. Each time it’s happened and the cleanup was finally over ...