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Tight-knit mountain towns like Chimney Rock were built on the promise of relaxed living. Now they face hard decisions about ...

Three small schools in Western North Carolina, already facing a tough environment, weathered a historic storm.

The rural town of Meat Camp was devastated by Hurricane Helene. Some residents rode out the storm in a family home.

This historically Black community just outside of Boone has weathered quite a bit over its history. Helene presents a new challenge.

He's known as the TikTok lawmaker. But Jackson's path from adolescence to Afghanistan to Congress wound through politically complex territory.

Mud covers the floor of the U.S. Post Office in Lansing, N.C. after Hurricane Helene. (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP) The Assembly is putting storm coverage outside of our paywall and ...

This story is a collaboration between KFF Health News and the Charlotte Observer. North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth ...

Bleak news this Friday, as the death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached 215, making it the third-deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. this century. That number may still get much worse, given the ...

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