More than 1,200 households were expected to check out of hotel rooms paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

NC Governor Stein secures FEMA Public Assistance program extension until April 7, 2025, for Tropical Storm Helene recovery.

AVERY COUNTY, N.C. — A two-lane highway in western North Carolina winds through a landscape littered with crushed cars, houses knocked off their foundations and thousands of downed trees.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency granted Gov. Josh Stein’s request for a 30-day extension for Helene disaster survivors to apply for FEMA’s individual assistance program. The new deadline is ...

Governor Josh Stein announced that the deadline to apply for FEMA assistance in North Carolina has been extended into April.

Across the hotels and motels of North Carolina, 1,240 of the 1,884 households in the program were set to leave by the end of the day March 7, a FEMA spokesperson told the Citizen Times March 6.

In a one-on-one interview in Swannanoa with WYFF News 4, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein reflected on the work done so far and the recovery that is still ahead. I asked him what his thoughts were when ...