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High Rock Acres community members celebrated the start of road repair and recovery eight months after Hurricane Helene. The Black Mountain community was cut off for more than a week after the storm.

North Carolina community marks Helene recovery milestone with groundbreaking ceremony

Neydja Petithomme, CNN June 4, 2025

BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina (WLOS) -- A Black Mountain community held a Road to Recovery Groundbreaking Ceremony on Tuesday, June 3, marking a big step forward for the area eight months after Hurricane...

Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in North Carolina

CNN — A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. William...

Drew Taylor

Opinion: The government is failing Houston

Drew Taylor September 4, 2017

As the world watched the devastation Hurricane Harvey caused last week, another domestic news story may have gone under the radar: It was reported this week that Republicans in the House of Representatives...

(from left) City manager Dave Ruller, city law director James R. Silver and Kent mayor Jerry T. Fiala sit at a city council meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.

Citizens pour into city council meeting after proposed change in floodplain map

More than a dozen citizens of Kent gathered in the atrium of the Kent Fire Department after Wednesday’s city council meeting to plan their next step.These citizens, largely living in the Forest Lakes...

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