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Amid staffing shortages, NC State Highway Patrol is paying students to undergo law enforcement training. In Western NC alone, ...
Triple Falls Trail at DuPont State Recreational Forest has reopened. However, the Helene-damaged Grassy Creek bridge or ...
Norfolk Southern has turned its attention to 16 miles of damaged tracks that connect the mountains with the rest of North ...
The summer tourist season is almost here, and the mountains are a big summer stop for people looking to escape the stifling ...
In this edition of Asheville Answers, a reader asks when the bridge to the WNC Nature Center will be repaired.
Parts of North Carolina still recovering from Helene could see 5 inches of rain. Flash flooding concerns stretched into ...
BUT NORTH CAROLINA HURRICANE HISTORY TELLS A UNIQUE STORY ... your neighborhood floods during heavy rain or you live near a creek, stream, or even a drainage ditch, you are especially vulnerable ...
The 51-year-old died last fall while attempting to save lives during Hurricane Helene. Widow Mary Garrison says ... Garrison was one of 11 North Carolina first responders honored at the National ...
President Donald Trump criticized the agency in January 2025 when he visited hurricane-stricken western North Carolina ... teeters on the edge of ravaged creek beds. It is, in other words ...
For weeks, Mack Thomason had to walk to the creek behind the house to collect ... damage in the mountain region of Western North Carolina, where hurricane-level rainfall is rare and only 4% ...