Buncombe County Emergency Management Assistant Director Ryan Cole urges residents to use caution when driving – it only takes six inches of water to ... with major damage or destroyed homes.

Asheville City Council had its annual retreat to focus on a post-Tropical Storm Helene recovery plan. As Council members plotted a course, staff laid out a bleak fiscal landscape the city will have to ...

WRAL 5 On Your Side is taking on the problems plaguing western North Carolina. The team spent a week in western N.C., ...

The Wednesday, Feb. 5, Buncombe County Helene recovery briefing covered ... Showers, laundry, bottled water and more resources remain available in some of WNC's most impacted communities daily ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections released the arrest warrants for 11 inmates in separate cases from ...

27, just hours before the water ... Maps track Hurricane Helene's 800-mile path of destruction across southeastern US The threat looked so dire that by Wednesday, Sept. 26, Buncombe County ...

A hellbender stranded on dry ground during Tropical Storm Helene is rescued in Buncombe County. Following Helene ... Meanwhile, wind and water damaged an estimated 822,000 acres of forest in ...

IN THOSE SIX DAYS, COLONEL BRAD MORGAN SAYS THEY HAVE CLEARED 16,000YD IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. ALONG WITH REMOVING HAZARDOUS WATER ... "This is the worst flooding damage I have ever seen anywhere ...

Almost 14 million visitors came to the city and surrounding Buncombe County in 2023 ... to Helene. Damage to the reservoir system left the city without potable water until the middle of ...

"We need new flood maps, and we need to figure out what the cost will be." Dickson acknowledged that allocating money for new maps may be a difficult ask, in light of the damage town facilities ...

In total, the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management reported that 163 water ... the Feb. 5 Buncombe County community briefing. Their work is becoming "more visible," as a lot of ...