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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Residents of a 42-home East Asheville community say they are facing millions of dollars in repairs from Tropical Storm Helene and are asking the city for help stabilizing a cliff where rocks and trees have fallen onto Azalea Road. ViewPointe resident Ann Sensibaugh, immediate past...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Two years after Tropical Storm Helene tore through Asheville, signs of recovery can be found across the city. Businesses have reopened. Roads and public spaces have returned to use. Homes have been repaired and rebuilt. Major recovery projects are moving from emergency response into long-

Even before Hurricane Helene, the town of Canton in Haywood County was trying to figure out how to reimagine its future. In 2023, the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill closed, leaving more than a thousand people without jobs and leaving the town without the industry that had sustained it for over a century.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Novant Health has completed the final phase of its South Asheville Medical Park, adding an imaging center and outpatient surgery center that are expected to begin serving patients this fall. Novant Health marked the completion of the project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, Sept.

Part of what gives me so much joy about eating in Asheville is recognizing that we’re all part of a very integrated ecosystem. It feels like every restaurant I love is either run by an alum of one of the places I’ve been involved in, or by people that I’ve worked side by side with at hurricane-relief events, or by some

It has been two years since one of the Southeast’s deadliest disasters, which claimed hundreds of lives. Here is a look back at the timeline of Hurricane Helene and the meteorological events that led to it. Rainfall totals in the mountains of North Carolina and South Carolina were measured...

WOODFIN, N.C. (WLOS) — Community colleges in western North Carolina are getting funds to help people land jobs with livable wages at a time when employers in the area are struggling to recruit. "We need more people in the trades and more people that are willing to do this...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When Gov. Roy Cooper activated 175 soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard before Helene, Rachel Bigbee and five others were dispatched to Black Mountain with two military trucks, right on the Swannanoa River. Bigbee said most of her team assumed it would be an easy check, but the next day, th

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — The North Carolina Department of Transportation is asking for your input on the proposed improvements to the interchange of Future Interstate 26 and New Stock Road. There was an information session tonight in Weaverville. Community members could ask about the planned replacements of bridg

Blue Ridge Pride is turning its 2026 Asheville festival into a two-day gathering at Pack Square Park on Friday, Sept. 25, and Saturday, Sept. 26. The split schedule gives adults a Friday evening program before the festival opens to all ages on Saturday afternoon. Friday’s program runs from 6 to...