By now, the “bears in canoes” meme seems pretty quaint, right? You surely remember before Helene hit the mountains how we’d already gotten a half-foot of rain and people started sharing the memes of ...

That dreadful sense of loss. We’ve felt it time and again the past nine days, over neighbors who lost lives and homes, over our infrastructure that lost the ability to provide for our basic needs, and ...

Twice in two decades, enormous transmission lines have washed out at North Fork Reservoir after torrential, hurricane-induced ...

Thousands of western North Carolina residents have limited or no cell phone signal in the wake of Hurricane Helene. As the ...

In terms of rainfall, flooding, and, tragically, lives lost, Hurricane Helene is officially worse than the historic 1916 and 2004 floods that until last week stood as the most damaging natural ...

To Dr. Ruchi Moore and her colleagues at Asheville’s Laurel OB/GYN, Hurricane Helene’s onslaught felt like a rerun of the ...

Buncombe County has provided twice-daily updates on Hurricane Helene’s devastation. At the briefings, county officials ...

Hurricane Helene brought record rainfall and devastation to western North Carolina. In Buncombe County alone, the death toll ...