In Black Appalachia, a small, 200-year-old community of descendants of enslaved people, Junaluska, is struggling after ...

This Thanksgiving, the Democrat and Chronicle is grateful for our journalists who assisted in person their colleagues in need ...

Mounting costs from storm damage, economic losses and expected repairs continues to mount. Also the latest county breakdown ...

Tropical Storm Helene was not totally unexpected. History shows that Helene devastated the same areas that were devastated in ...

Western North Carolina felt the brunt of it, when the storm devastated counties and left thousands without power and water.

Jim Sieminski once worked at the Biltmore Estate and as a wine steward at Burntshirt Vineyards befpre dying in Helene.

For breast cancer patients in WNC, Tropical Storm Helene has created an extra level of anxiety, disruptions to their ...

How will they survive and move forward? Junaluska Road weaves between homes on a mountainside that was rain-drenched by ...

Junaluska Road weaves between homes on a mountainside that was rain-drenched by Helene, where fallen trees blocked the flooded street after the tropical storm hit. As Helene lifted on the ...

On the night Tropical Storm Helene made landfall, Grace Freeman was sitting on her bed and praying the large tree in her backyard wouldn't fall on her. "I said, 'Lord, don't let no tree come ...

ASHEVILLE - When Tropical Storm Helene hit Western North Carolina on Sept. 27, it had been about six weeks since Laura Baxley had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer.