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A non-profit, a country music star, and a knife company came together to provide a home to a family who lost its home in ...
Law enforcement in Western NC surprised not to see looting or contractor fraud they had feared. Efforts to warn public may ...
An Asheville nonprofit has dedicated its services to feeding food insecure residents months after Tropical Storm Helene.
North Carolina launched a safety campaign to install free smoke alarms across 62 counties with the help of Kidde and State ...
Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...
The shower and laundry station provided public utilities, including showers, laundry services, bathrooms, access to cell ...
Buncombe County Commissioners will lift the local state of emergency related to Hurricane Helene at their next meeting, ...
County Manager Avril Pinder outlined the newly approved FY26 budget of $433.1 million. Despite post-storm revenue losses, the budget prioritizes recovery, education, and services for storm survivors.
Hurricane Helene was responsible for the most inland flooding deaths in the United States in 52 years. In North Carolina, ...
Leaders from Buncombe County and the city of Asheville share an update on Wednesday about the region's recovery from Hurricane Helene after the storm brought devastating winds and flooding to the ...
For years, Asheville and Buncombe County’s market for short-term rentals — such as those found on websites like Airbnb and ...
It promised to reopen the next day at noon, weather permitting. That impending weather was the remnants of Hurricane Helene. And that reopening still hasn't arrived. The storm smashed into the ...