David Melton, who has led the department since 2016, oversaw the city’s response to Hurricane Helene and other major water ...

FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she plans to introduce a hearing on geomodification and make it a felony to “inject, release, or disperse chemicals into the atmosphere for the purpose of ...

Helene damaged more than 8,000 private roads and bridges in WNC, at a cost of $460 million, according to an early state ...

Asheville's Water Resources Director David Melton is leaving the city for a position in Rock Hill, South Carolina in August.

Out of all of South Carolina's regions, only one is vulnerable to the type of catastrophic flash river flooding that hit ...

While Hurricane Helene was singular in western North Carolina, the critical role of public media is universal. Across the ...

The NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC issued a report at 2:37 p.m. on Tuesday for strong thunderstorms until 3:15 p.m. The alert ...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking an area of low pressure in the Atlantic, located off the coast of North Florida, in ...

More than 330 miles to the west, Asheville, elevation 2,134 feet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is known as the commercial and cultural hub for the North Carolina mountains.

Wilmington received more snow this winter than Asheville or Charlotte. Here's why. Only five times since World War II has Wilmington seen more snow during winter than Asheville, the most recent ...

Potentially even more surprising, New Bern − 90 miles up the coast from Wilmington − saw almost as much snow as Raleigh and three times as much as Charlotte, while Elizabeth City, a North Carolina ...