Michelle Alfini

People who want to buy an electric vehicle say the biggest turnoff is range anxiety, adding that chargers are hard to find and it takes too long to get recharged.

In September 1989, Hurricane Hugo swept through the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, leaving dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction in its wake.

CHARLOTTE — Since Hurricane Hugo’s landfall 35 years ago, the Carolinas have seen a handful of devastating hurricanes and tropical storms, yet we have not experienced another Category 4 storm.

"Don’t plan on what the storm is like now. Plan on what it’s going to be like at landfall."

They can be common in the Blue Ridge area during big storms like Thursday’s, but geologists have spent years mapping out where the risk is highest for landslides.

Duke Energy is facing a new lawsuit that accuses the power company of exposing thousands of locals to harmful toxins.

Like much of the country, Kim Wooten said her first response to the images out of western North Carolina was devastation.

When the University of North Carolina at Charlotte first opened Jerry Richardson Stadium, the Student Government Association passed a resolution requiring the university to run it as a zero-waste facility.

Over the previous four years, the city lost 969 acres of tree canopy, an area about 10 times the size of Freedom Park.

More than a week after Helene moved through the Carolinas, more than 80,000 are still without power in the mountains.