Bill Moss

Miranda Dubney overcame plenty of obstacles to join hundreds of other worshipers from across the storm-ravaged area to ask for God's blessing in a communitywide service at Hendersonville High School's football field.

When legislators gather in Raleigh this week to adopt the first post-Helene relief package for Western North Carolina, a top leader of the General Assembly will come armed with first-hand reporting at the medical need.

The death toll in Henderson County from Hurricane Helene stands at seven, a preliminary look at property damage shows 600 structures damaged or destroyed and roads and bridges remain a long-term challenges, Henderson County commissioners heard during a storm update Monday night.

Citing an overwhelming response to an appeal for food, water and supplies to aid Hurricane Helene victims, Henderson County announced Tuesday that it was no longer asking for those donations.

When he heard about “Mary from Virginia,” a faithful disaster relief volunteer at Etowah Elementary School, schools Superintendent Mark Garrett assumed Mary was a transplant from the commonwealth to our north.

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The cost to dispose of the mountains of storm debris left in the wake of Hurricane Helene's destruction will exceed $10 million, County Engineer Marcus Jones says.

EDNEYVILLE — Stout-hearted voters at the WNC Justice Academy waited in the cool morning air for the doors to open on Tuesday, the first day of early voting at the apple country site.

As a regional Reserve Bank, we keep a pulse on the Fifth District economy using a variety of sources, including anecdotal information from contacts in our region. To supplement our initial analysis on the economic impact of Hurricane Helene, we've compiled some early insights that detail how our Fifth District communities are grappling with the storm's aftermath.

Infuriated over long lines at the three new early voting sites that opened Tuesday, local, state and national Republicans on Wedndesday demanded that the Henderson County elections board add more precinct judges, check-in stations and voting machines to speed things up.