One of the things I cherish most about Western North Carolina is its patchwork of small, close-knit communities nestled among ...

As insurance costs have increased, representatives from the N.C. Department of Insurance and statewide flood organizations encouraged higher standards and suggested possible incentives for flood ...

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene brought record-breaking rainfall and severe flooding to mountain communities, causing extensive damage to infrastructure and isolating cities like Asheville.

With Hurricane Helene’s damage still visible across Western North Carolina, Gov. Josh Stein says the state must brace for ...

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

The start of hurricane season can send a shiver through eastern North Carolina, a region pounded in the last decade by two ...

Every storm has a story, and many more have yet to be written. From each hurricane’s beginning, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, to their dramatic end on ...

Owner Jake Jarvis could be seen on Friday moving boulders in his excavator as he helped rebuild a driveway to where a home once stood in Bat Cave.

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for ...

The transportation damage from Helene alone was about $5 billion. A new report breaks down how much of that has been repaired.

Right now, all traffic on I-40 in western North Carolina is traveling on two lanes after the other two lanes were washed out ...