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Lawmakers spoke out against the impact of the government shutdown on WNC as the area waits for millions in federal relief funds.
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For a variety of businesses in Western NC, a bustling summer tourism season is sorely needed to balance their books.
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For hundreds of communities nationwide, plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended because of the Trump administration's elimination of a federal grant program.
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Federal officials say two wildfires spreading in western North Carolina have burned more than 2 square miles of wooded area. The larger fire in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness Area near Robbinsville has burned about 800 acres and was 0% contained on Wednesday.
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Hurricane Helene hit areas north of Asheville particularly hard. That’s where flooding from the North Toe River devastated Spruce Pine, a town of about 2,000 people.
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After Helene's catastrophic damage in western North Carolina, conservation groups say an amendment to the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Plan will help recovery efforts moving forward.
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Mobile wastewater units bridge the gap as the town brings its damaged sewage treatment plant back online.
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Truist Financial Corporation has announced that it is making hundreds of millions of dollars in loans available to residents, businesses and local governments affected by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
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Jose Sandoval was one of the voices on Blue Ridge Public Radio broadcasting life-saving information in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. And he started sharing it in Spanish too.
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Human traffickers are trickling into western North Carolina to exploit the trail of vulnerability that Hurricane Helene left in its wake, a law enforcement representative warned at a recent North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission meeting.