Local leaders face significant challenges and argue Washington and Raleigh could do more to help them recover from the $60 billion storm.
Hurricane Helene left at least 108 people dead, over 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed, and over $60 billion in total costs. A year later, communities across western NC are still picking up the pieces.
Last fall, communities across western North Carolina were devastated by Hurricane Helene. A year later, the town of Marshall has reopened and is forging a path forward.
In her latest report from rural America, Gwen Frisbie-Fulton highlights how North Carolinians are pushing back on structural roadblocks and reclaiming their role in local democracy.
A community-based organization focused on drug use harm reduction turned its headquarters into a refuge for all seeking help in the face of a hurricane.
As Congress looks to cut SNAP, better known as "food stamps," we go inside Greensboro, North Carolina's "People's Market," which runs on vendors and customers who rely on the federal aid.
During the protest I felt a sense of power seeing the turnout and the passion written across faces and homemade signs. As I hollered to get everyone together for a picture, it felt like a family getting together on Christmas morning.
About two years ago, tents started to show up in my neighborhood along the creek beds and in small stands of trees. Most only became visible when the leaves fell, exposing their orange rainflies and blue tarps. This increase in houselessness didn’t feel surprising...
It started in the back seat of my family’s Jeep Cherokee, the one with the broken AC and vinyl seats that stuck to my thighs in the late summer heat. After school we would wait, all the doors flung open, for my dad to get off work. My mother reading in the front...
Rep. Rodney D. Pierce, a Democrat representing Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties, has an idea for a statewide screening program to help men detect prostate cancer before it’s too late.
