After 24 years of guiding whitewater trips on the Nolichucky River Gorge for other companies, Patrick Mannion finally received a permit last year to operate his own outfitter business.

Western North Carolina is home to more than a million acres of national forest controlled by the Forest Service. In addition, ...

Samaritan’s Purse continues working with Hurricane Helene survivors across western North Carolina and parts of Tennessee. The ...

Country crooner Eric Church is packing up his guitar and heading to Avery County, NC to help out families left homeless by ...

The U.S. Forest Service fired thousands of workers in the past week, including firefighters, biologists, and disaster recovery experts. Many were directly involved in western North Carolina recovery ...

A plan to sharply cut Community Development Block Grant program staffing follows Trump's statement that he is inclined to ...

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), both members of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement after the Republican-led Senate voted to move a budget plan that will cut resources ...

Writers acknowledged the $53 billion of damages across NC caused by Helene, and reminded the public that Western NC needs ...

Greenville County Schools is proposing a plan for makeup days after schools were closed for eight days because of Hurricane ...

When floodwaters from Hurricane Helene engulfed homes and towns in western North Carolina, residents faced a harsh reality -- ...

The request from the federal government comes weeks after he asked the North Carolina General Assembly for $1 billion in ...

More than $1 billion in federal disaster recovery money is headed to western North Carolina, but now there could be too few ...