Summer brings visitors to Western North Carolina in droves. It's no wonder the region dominates entries on a new list of the ...

Western North Carolina towns using social media to welcome tourists following Hurricane Helene By Pilar Arias Fox News Published October 17, 2024 1:32pm EDT ...

The Western North Carolina Small Business Initiative has disbursed $55 million to support 2,182 local businesses, aiming to ...

Overlooking the Swannanoa River in Western North Carolina and the destruction the rising river caused on Nov 8, 2024, after Hurricane Helene devastated the region.

ASHEVILLE - As a winter snowstorm hits Western North Carolina — and is expected to ease the morning of Jan. 11 — many areas in the mountains are receiving inches of fresh snow, presenting a ...

Parts of western North Carolina remain off-limits to tourists as the recovery from Helene continues. But other mountain communities are eager to welcome fall visitors to help keep their small ...

Helene devastated towns in western North Carolina. Three weeks later, dozens of people are missing and thousands are without power. Volunteers, donations and search and rescue teams have poured in.

The French Broad River winds through the mountains of western North Carolina, fed by dozens of mountain streams, and crosses the city of Asheville. At over 2,000 feet above sea level and more than ...

Why North Carolina wasn’t prepared for Helene The N.C. climate change plan warned four years ago the state’s western mountains were vulnerable to extreme weather and “even Asheville itself ...

Western NC is likely to experience ... Helene's impact on the North Carolina mountains: ... Total precipitation from Helene will likely be between 10-15" in some places across the NC mountains.

Over three days, rain amounts of 6 inches to 30 inches or more fell across a region from north Georgia through western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and into Virginia. Mountains enhanced the rain ...

The winds from Helene were felt across western North Carolina, ... our state's long-running benchmark for deaths during a tropical event — approximately 80 during the mountain region's July ...