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Wildfires in the Carolinas force evacuations and prompt an emergency declaration
Wildfires forced a mandatory evacuation in one North Carolina county as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area of ...
Wildfires rage across western North Carolina, triggers emergency evacuation orders
Destructive wildfires in North Carolina have led to evacuation orders in Polk County. The fires, coupled with the region's ...
Rural counties in Western NC struggle with funding in Helene's aftermath
Nearly six months since Helene, it's not just Asheville and Buncombe County struggling to get the funding necessary to ...
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Trump wants states to handle disasters. States aren't prepared
President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't ...
Stein signs disaster bill that will send more than $500 million to WNC for Helene recovery
"This funding is a promising step forward in the long road to recovery for Western North Carolina," Gov. Josh Stein said in a ...
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Here’s how $700M in aid will be spent for North Carolina’s Helene recovery
Governor Josh Stein signed the Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 Part 1 into law on Wednesday, marking the first bill of his ...
NC governor signs Hurricane Helene relief bill into law
The measure went to Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, who signed the bill — his first as governor — in a Wednesday evening ceremony ...
A look into Asheville's homeless population post-Helene
With Hurricane Helene destroying so much of WNC, it only added to the amount of people experiencing homelessness.
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NC lawmaker proposes bill aiming to make political discrimination in disaster relief a felony
North Carolina already makes many kinds of discrimination in disaster relief illegal. Now, a lawmaker wants to make ...