More than 200 people died as a result of Hurricane Helene. Damages to public property in North Carolina alone added up to roughly $1 billion.

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The sheriff said 11 people died and three people are considered to be missing more than five months after Helene swept through the county.

A state Senate plan allocates not just funding for Helene recovery but for assistance with earlier hurricanes Florence and ...

Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight corridor, a 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday. Though still ...

Relief for Hurricane Helene victims is one step closer after the North Carolina Senate passed a bill to send more than $500 million dollars to relief efforts.

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — As Western North Carolina marks five months since Hurricane Helene, nonprofits on the ground helping ...

The North Carolina state Senate advanced a disaster recovery measure Tuesday to direct $533 million in additional spending to meet still-pressing needs from Hurricane Helene's historic flooding ...

Hurricane Helene hit the Western North Carolina region on Sep. 27, causing extensive damage and triggering over 2,000 landslides.

The bill they’re advancing includes about $33 million more than the $500 million that House members suggested, but Senators added this is only step one.

North Carolina is still rebuilding after Hurricane Helene‘s devastation, but a key piece of infrastructure partially reopened over the weekend. In the western part of the Tar Heel State ...