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Will Asheville’s once-booming riverfront art district ever recover from Helene?

Asheville, North Carolina Reuters The river that runs through Asheville, North Carolina, is littered with artwork drifting downstream after deadly floods from Hurricane Helene decimated the mountain city’s arts district, a linchpin of tourism in the area that some residents fear will never recover. Some of the 300 artists and designers who work out of […]

By mule and helicopter, volunteers deliver aid to Helene victims

Asheville, North Carolina Reuters An army of private volunteers including mule drivers and helicopter pilots are helping deliver supplies and rescue stranded victims after one of the deadliest storms in recent US history ripped through the mountains of western North Carolina.  One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of […]

Rescuers scour North Carolina mountains for survivors cut off by Hurricane Helene

Asheville, North Carolina, US Reuters Search-and-rescue teams who have already saved hundreds of people scoured the mountains of western North Carolina for more survivors on Tuesday, working amid washed-out roads, smashed bridges and felled power lines following Hurricane Helene. The storm has killed at least 162 people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee […]

Hundreds still missing in devastated North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

Reuters Western North Carolina residents faced a “post-apocalyptic” landscape on Monday in the wake of hurricane Helene, with hundreds of people still missing and residents struggling amid flooded roads and a lack of basic services. More than 100 deaths across a half-dozen states have been attributed to the powerful storm that slammed into Florida’s Big […]