Deportation protests come to Western North Carolina
Western North Carolina’s largest city saw hundreds gather Monday night for an immigration protest. The protesters gathered in Downtown Asheville, police there issued an alert about the protests around 7PM.
Gov. Josh Stein requests more than $1 billion for rebuilding Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina
Gov. Josh Stein is requesting more than $1 billion from North Carolina lawmakers to help rebuild Western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene. Stein made his budget request Monday in Asheville. It includes $150 million across two grant programs for businesses that suffered physical damage or significant economic loss.
Helene cleanup ramps up in western North Carolina
After Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina last September, tens of thousands of homes were damaged and large swaths of the region were damaged by flooding. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up recovery,
Ask 13: How did Helene change western North Carolina's rivers?
Speaking with a member of the French Broad Riverkeepers Program, News 13 has learned that not only are area rivers, specifically the French Broad River, wider after Helene, but they are deeper, too. With coastal hurricanes, those areas have more space for the water to move around, so the water will rise and then fall.
Evacuations Are Ordered as Wildfire Breaks Out in Western North Carolina
The wildfire strikes an inland region of North Carolina that is still recovering from the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in September.
President Donald Trump arrives in western North Carolina to visit areas hit by Helene
He will be in the western part of the state to survey damage and get a firsthand look at the progress being made from Hurricane Helene recovery.
WATCH: Trump promises help to western North Carolina, maybe an end to FEMA
Promising to bring congressional fiscal help and hammering away at FEMA, second-term Republican President Donald Trump’s first domestic trip led off Friday talking to residents in
Fact Check: Did Helene bill take money from western North Carolina?
Before leaving the governor's office, Roy Cooper stated in media interviews that Republican state legislators passed a bill that "actually took money away from western North Carolina." WFAE's Marshall Terry and WRAL's Paul Specht fact-check Cooper's claim.
Private landowners in western North Carolina fight wildfire with prescribed fire
Helene reshaped much of western North Carolina’s landscape, rerouting rivers and felling large swaths of forests. Aerial timber surveys indicate that Helene damaged over 800,000 acres of North Carolina’s forested land.
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Search continues nearly a month after the disappearance of Western North Carolina woman
Detectives with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office are working to find a missing woman, who was last seen nearly a month ...
LIVE UPDATES: President Trump to depart for western North Carolina
The visit will focus on assessing the ongoing recovery efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.
Hurricane survivors who met Trump in North Carolina share president's words that stuck with them
North Carolina locals who survived Hurricane Helene in September but suffered massive losses from the storm share their ...
2nd wildfire breaks out in Helene-ravaged North Carolina county as "significant progress" made in Crooked Creek Fire, officials say
Two fires are now burning in western North Carolina's McDowell County, just four months after it was hard-hit by Hurricane ...
'I think we recommend that FEMA go away' says Trump in North Carolina on Friday
In North Carolina Friday, President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order aimed at what he said would address ...