Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Helene cost the region 600,000 trout, and native brook trout populations may have been ...

It was the regionality and subject matter but also the steel underneath the quiet tale that called it to mind when I spoke to ...

Since Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina in late September ... has a lot of locally grown delights to choose from!

North Carolina is the second largest Christmas-tree-producing state in the country, according to the North Carolina Christmas ...

Helene made landfall in Florida Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane before drenching Western North Carolina in the days that followed. The storm claimed the lives of at least 95 people, ages 4 to ...

A tree fell on top of Tobey Pierce’s Prius, smashing two of his windows, during Tropical Storm Helene’s rampage across Western North Carolina in late September. It's the same Prius the 79 ...

Biologists and other experts are still struggling to reach areas of western North Carolina wrecked by storms to assess the damage. Some are facing Helene's effects on their own lives. But as early ...

These human-made barriers to voting have only been exacerbated in western North Carolina by Hurricane Helene and its aftermath. Despite these new challenges, North Carolina voters — including ...

Dismayed residents have complained the shoreline is carpeted with weeds but plant experts say they are native wildflowers that offer myriad benefits. But two environmental groups contacted North ...

And despite concerns that hurricane damage could suppress turnout in Western North Carolina, state data suggests that voters have not been widely disenfranchised. In-person voter turnout is up by ...