Despite major damages to waterways caused by Helene, these Western NC locations were voted among 2025's best by USA TODAY readers.

Large sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway remain closed in Western North Carolina. Which areas might reopen in late summer, early fall?

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

I was honored to join many veterans at the Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the USS North Carolina Battleship Commission.

Local officials, NCDOT and state parks representatives weigh in on progress in Chimney Rock, a small WNC village, eight months after Helene.

WATCH AN The WXII 12 News weather team is tracking the potential for severe weather. The storm system is expected to bring hail and wind damage to ... Yadkin County in North Carolina was cancelled.

2025 The line of storms that produced the damage are moving east across the entire Carolinas. Before sunrise, the storms pushed into North Carolina and South Carolina. The storms are strengthening ...

Plans to repair the Carolina Beach pier are in the works, according to management. The end of the pier has been closed for fishing for months after sustaining damage from a storm. The structure ...

Early estimate say that Tropical Storm Helene will cost North Carolina $53 billion in damage. Western North Carolina felt the brunt of it, when the storm devastated counties and left thousands ...

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and ...

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene swept through the southeast as a tropical storm, much of the damage across North Carolina is still being assessed, even at some of the state’s most loved ...