The NC Department of Transportation has built a temporary road between Bat Cave and Chimney Rock. The permanent highway may ...

“Lean not on your own understanding,” is the bible verse Brian Greene has recited in his head every day since Tropical Storm Helene took away his paradise along the Western North Carolina ...

Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy ...

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (WAVY) — When Helene hit, the creeks turned ... you could get to the neighbor’s house, and it totally washed them out,” Dustin said. He said an elderly couple there ...

As many as 600 people are unaccounted for, White House says Widespread ... A crisis was unfolding in western North Carolina, where residents stranded by washed-out roads and by a lack of power ...

SWANNANOA, N.C. -- U.S. Highway 70 is the main road through Swannanoa, a small town in western North Carolina ... Helene almost nine months later, difficult. "Maybe their employer was washed ...

Across Western North Carolina, the remnants of Helene washed out roads and bridges or buried ... The dirt road to their house used to cross over a tiny creek. During the storm, Bromer says it ...

The couple lived here for 30 years, next to Mrs. Pacheo's mother, whose house ... out of the flood risk if it's a multi-state risk." There were hundreds of landslides in western North Carolina in ...