Helene ravaged western NC, including the town of Marshall, last September. But now local businesses like Mad Co. Brew House are hoping for a comeback.
Some families have decided the price is too great of a financial burden and canceled their coverage.
From mountain landscapes to coastal access to quieter suburban neighborhoods, here’s what WorldAtlas writers chose as the best places to live in North Carolina.
We’ve compiled a list of western North Carolina’s best mountain coasters for a new way to explore Appalachia.
“It’s absolutely unacceptable. My team and I are asking FEMA, ‘What’s the hold up?'” North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said of the news.
Conservationists say it could dismantle a national safeguard for some of the country’s largest remaining blocks of relatively undisturbed forest, threaten wildlife, drinking water, and more.
We spoke to Gary Pigg, a Cabarrus County resident who delivered more than 220 campers to residents after Tropical Storm Helene.
Helene was devastating for tourism for the western NC ski industry. Locals are hoping for big snow in 2026 to help make a comeback.
Right now, under Trump, we are seeing a fundamental change to the way we do disaster relief in America. It’s going to hurt states like North Carolina the most.
Helene hit Ashevile especially hard last year, but a new list from Readers Digest named the western NC city the “nicest place in America.”
