Cindi Ross Scoppe reports on the suffering she witnessed as she worked with other church volunteers to help poverty-stricken ...

A newly released report from the United States Geological Survey reveals the unprecedented scope and lingering hazards of ...

According to the state's Division of Community Revitalization, Helene damaged 31,782 owner-occupied single-family homes and 6 ...

A Wilmington church group returned to Spruce Pine, NC, several months after Hurricane Helene to continue ... repairing flood damage and installing new fixtures. While progress is evident, the ...

Legislators are working on a new bill to help western North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene ... Ralph Hise, R-Spruce Pine, said the legislature would likely spend more on Helene relief ...

My 89-year-old mother, Betty Jean, and my sister, Frankie, were both living in Spruce Pine at the time of the storm. I had warned my sister that a hurricane ... said it is the damage to the ...

A donation site offering free packages of bottled water to Spruce Pine residents affected by Hurricane Helene ... who represents Mitchell County, told NC Health News there were no quick fixes ...

But for towns like Spruce Pine, the financial and engineering challenges of repairing their water systems are as formidable as the hurricane that broke them. The water that flows into the North ...

The batch agglomerator at Spruce Pine ... damage. “It will be years before the roads are back in good shape.” Damage to private, local, state, and federal roads in the wake of the hurricane ...