Helene reshaped much of western North Carolina’s landscape, rerouting rivers and felling large swaths of forests. Aerial ...

Speaking with a member of the French Broad Riverkeepers Program, News 13 has learned that not only are area rivers, ...

This can also create the perfect conditions for wildfires when flooding and high winds fell trees that rapidly ... A fall drought could put western North Carolina at extreme wildfire risk.

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles carry a warning for western North Carolina: It could be next. Ironically, it’s a hurricane that has raised the fire risk. Hurricane Helene toppled trees ...

ASHEVILLE, North Caroline (WLOS) — A lot of physical damage occurred in Western North Carolina during Helene ... “It can bring trees that were along the river, vegetation and things like ...

“The operational teams also completed all maintenance outages at our power plants before the winter ... and businesses in central and western North Carolina, including Charlotte, Durham and ...

For our Wellness Issue, we asked folks in Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison and Transylvania counties to identify one ...

The funds will help restore critical infrastructure damaged when the Category 4 storm struck Western ... North Carolina will also receive portions of the funding to to remove debris and downed ...

If you want to see year-round color, you don't need to look further than your backyard. There are many native shrubs and ...

CHARLOTTE — Families in western North Carolina recovering from Helene are ... slamming it into trees. “Now they want to kick everybody out and I don’t think that’s right because they ...

One of the original Florida state parks, opened to the public in 1935, the 13,000-acre expanse felt more like Georgia or North Carolina with ... get to share the rare plants and rich history ...

As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...