Rod Ashby lost his home, then his wife, then nearly $40,000. The North Carolina man’s ordeal started in September when Hurricane Helene hit. The floodwaters swept away the home Rod and his wife, Kim Ashby, had spent the last two years building, CNN reported. The couple was eating breakfast when their house began moving in […]The post

Wheatland resident Charles Hoskinson donated his Black Hawk helicopter and four pilots to provide relief and resources to people in North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene. He said they met no other volunteer crew that had traveled as far away as Wyoming to help.

Tourists stayed away from western North Carolina this year after Helene swept through the area, and towns that depend on leaf lookers are bracing for big losses.

Nearly 600,000 trout grown by theN.C. Wildlife Resources Commissiondied at aMcDowell Countyhatchery during the rains brought by Hurricane Helene, the state agency has reported.

When Hurricane Helene damaged western North Carolina in September, filling medical facilities with people who couldnt be cared for at home, Jim Polk, a tech executive at Exela Pharmaceutical Sciences in Lenoir, N.C., got a call from the Atrium Health hospital group in flooded Asheville. Could his company make intravenous saline bags for the expected crush of patients?

Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Highway Administration.

A FEMA official was fired after they directed disaster relief workers in Florida to avoid homes with Trump signs out front in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

A new technology developed by NASA to predict space weather showed that Hurricane Helene produced "enormous" waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere as it came ashore on Sept. 26, the agency says.

More than a month after Hurricane Helene devastated mountain communities across Western North Carolina, the VA is still sending out teams to check on isolated veterans and bring them supplies.

Climate change has been tragically visible this fall. In theValencia region of Spain, hundreds are dead or missing after intense floodinglast week, with entire houses washed away and people trapped in homes with thecorpses of their family members. In late September, Hurricane Helene devastatedthe American South, also killing hundreds of people, and causing bil...

The floods from Helene have all but wiped out Asheville's popular arts district. Now its artists are finding other ways to make up for their losses.

Nearly six weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Western North Carolina, radio reporter Jose Sandoval's daily Spanish-language broadcasts have become an essential lifeline for the small but growing Latino community in Western North Carolina, providing information about public services and dispelling misinformation as they piece together their lives.

Most retail shops in downtown Asheville have reopened, but tourism officials say that Helene's aftermath will impact tourism sales revenue for fiscal year 2025.

North Carolina giant electric utility, Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE:DUK), has provided estimates that the total cost to restore facilities damaged by Hurricanes Debby, Milton and Helene could fall in the range of $2.4 billion to $2.9 billion. According to CEO Lynn Good, tens of thousands of the companys customers were left without power after Helene ripped away transmission lines and power poles, bu...

(The Center Square) A church in the mountains of eastern Tennessee is rebuilding after Hurricane Helene’s flood waters ripped away parts of the building. The main sanctuary is mostly intact. Recovery, now in the sixth week, remains a journey. Volunteers had to dig out Riverview Baptist Church in Erwin and fully gut the building […]

When time stands still after disaster, how do we mark the days? Pastor Esta Jarrett shares how a small mountain town tries to hold hope, gratitude, pain, and loss in the wake of Helene.The post Advent in the aftermath appeared first on The Presbyterian Outlook.