One charming town in North Carolina is the perfect place to catch a historic walking tour, and it's surrounded by plenty of ...

Post-Helene, local governments have more shredded debris than they can easily manage. It will be months before it can all be ...

As a candidate, the president spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them.

Travelers in search of charming downtown areas, outdoor recreation, and sweeping vistas should set their sights on these ...

Businesses at WNC Main Street hope to stay busy over Memorial Day weekend as work to rebuild areas devastated by Hurricane ...

At the north end of town, all that remains of Bayou Billy's Chimney Rock Country Fair amusement park is a pile of twisted metal, tattered awnings and jumbled train cars. A peeling, cracked yellow ...

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C. — It’s been eight months since Hurricane Helene destroyed the town of Chimney Rock, and many businesses ...

The brightly colored sign along the S-curve mountain road beckons visitors to the Gemstone Mine, the "#1 ATTRACTION IN ...

The storm smashed into the North Carolina mountains last September, killing more than 100 people and causing an estimated $60 billion in damage. Chimney Rock, a hamlet of about 140 named for the ...

Chimney Rock was emblematic of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene. Thanks to an army of volunteers, it's on the way ...

In western North Carolina, thousands of volunteers have been working to rebuild the village of Chimney Rock in time for summer. The iconic southern Appalachian community was all but destroyed ...

Even with all the damage that Helene wrought throughout western North Carolina, few spots were transformed as swiftly and dramatically as Chimney Rock. And few face such profound choices in the ...