North Carolina Hurricane Helene victims are struggling and feeling forgotten as winter approaches. Temperatures are dropping, and many hurricane survivors are living in tents or trailers without insulation.

Seven weeks after Hurricane Helene damaged parts of the southeast, students in one western North Carolina county are still out of school.

Three rivers that swelled to deadly levels during Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27 – the French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon – start in North Carolina and empty into Douglas Lake. They transformed the waters of the popular recreation and fishing destination to brown muck and left a one-square-mile island of wreckage after the historic floods.

David Burke’s ambitious plan is to host a feast for more than 5,000 people on Nov. 28 in a gesture of gratitude and resilience in the face of adversity.

Our community college system’s economic development division is working alongside the 58 community colleges to leverage strong ties to industry to support recovery in multiple ways. In the wake of Hurricane Helene,

Heavy rain fell across parts of western North Carlina on Thursday for the first time since the devastating flooding event from Hurricane Helene and many continue to rebuild their homes.

One of my favorite Christmas stories as a child was The Year of The Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston. An Asheville, North Carolina, native, Houston published the Southern Christmas tale in the mid 1990s;

The benefit concert put on by the North Carolina Folk Festival at the Steven Tanger Center on Nov. 7 raised over $40,000 for Hurricane Helene relief, according to a press release sent out Tuesday. The event featured performances from western North Carolina-based bands Steep Canyon Rangers and the Holler Choir.