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The Federal Emergency Management Agency program that housed displaced Helene victims in hotel rooms has drawn to a close. As of May, there were no FEMA hotel vouchers being used in Haywood County — ...
How is Haywood's vital tourism economy faring in the wake of Helene? It's a tricky question to answer, with only one full season — and winter at that — behind us. It's made all the more difficult by ...
An Asheville woman missing for over four months was found in Waynesville, leading to arrest of a man in a housing site for ...
When Hurricane Helene slammed into Western North Carolina in late 2024, public attention focused on damaged homes, washed-out ...
Helene flooded the Pigeon River over its banks and into neighborhoods, swamping houses in its wake. Many homes, eight months ...
It will be property value that is impacted, both for the town and the county,” he said ... disaster relief facility after Helene. Camp Restore Hope provides flood victims with free food and ...
Months later, those efforts continue with help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA said it has distributed over $13 million to survivors in the county. Here's the breakdown of the ...
Good news! The SR 81/Taylor Bridge in Washington County officially reopened to traffic earlier this morning (Saturday, May 24 ...
There are 2,400 fewer leisure and hospitality jobs compared with the same point last year, according to state Department of ...
Only six out of 1,000 state-purchased housing trailers have been occupied so far, while nearly seven months after Helene, ...