Eight months after Hurricane Helene swept through Chimney Rock, the tourist town still isn't ready to welcome summer visitors ...

One of the things I cherish most about Western North Carolina is its patchwork of small, close-knit communities nestled among ...

Asked this week what distinguishes North Carolina from the other states in his region, Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pointed to geography and appetite. First ...

"It's still very much an active search and rescue mission" in western North Carolina, Criswell said. "And we know that there's many communities that are cut off just because of the geography" of ...

Helene hit Western North Carolina as a tropical storm on ... according to University of South Carolina Geography Professor Cary Mock, who studies hurricane history as a geographer and climatologist.