Tribal nations are more vulnerable to disasters due to their remote locations and pre-existing inequities, but the Qualla ...

Isabel Driver knows how important the work she does is. As an intern with the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina ...

Athene Grant remembers hearing the trees start to fall. She sat on the couch, looking out of windows covered in shredded ...

The land is now owned by video game developer and CEO Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, who bought tracts of land in McDowell County ...

The North Carolina Forest Service expects a level 3, High Fire Danger threat beginning on Sunday, and a level 4, Very High ...

It has been a tough two months since Helene brought devastation to the mountains of WNC, one downtown event acknowledged the ...

Dozens of rural water systems were knocked out by the remnant of Hurricane Helene. Full recovery may take years.

"Mountain Strong Sanctuary" was created a month ago after individual volunteers decided to combine their efforts.

Tropical Storm Helene terrorized Western North Carolina’s farms in late September. Recovering is no easy task. And Helene was ...

The deaths make 2024 the deadliest hurricane season since 2005, said National Hurricane Center director Michael Brennan.