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NC ski industry hopes for snow to power comeback after Helene damage kept tourists away last year

Tropical Storm Helene devastated the ski industry in NC with direct damage and discouraging tourists. Snowfall this winter ...

How NC is preparing for a new year of Helene recovery: Housing, tourism & leaning on FEMA

In June, North Carolina launched its long-awaited program to rebuild single-family homes damaged by Hurricane Helene in ...
Mountain Xpress

Gov. Stein, GROW NC announce expansion of Western North Carolina Recovery Team

Additionally, Drew Christy moves into a regional recovery coordinator role, supporting western Buncombe County, Haywood and Madison counties, and counties in the Southwestern Commission region.
WUNC

Contradictions and gaps in Western NC’s recovery one year after Helene

One year ago, Tropical Storm Helene struck Western North Carolina. Rivers rejected their boundaries and trees slid from their mountains. Houses were uprooted from their foundations. Roads buckled ...

'Giant step forward': NC receives $116M in federal funding for Helene recovery

More than $116 million in federal funding was announced to go to North Carolina's recovery from Tropical Storm Helene.
WTVD

Summer tourism is critical to Helene recovery efforts in western NC: Visit NC

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Executive Director of Visit NC, Wit Tuttell, stopped by the ABC11 Eyewitness News Studio to talk about how tourism is growing in North Carolina. The biggest thing Tuttell ...
AOL

‘Probably go down as worst disaster in NC history’: 57 dead in Buncombe County alone as mountains struggle to recover

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN/AP) — Deaths in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene hit 57 just in Buncombe County, officials in the county announced Tuesday afternoon as desperate residents of the ...