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Photos and videos of Helene's impact on western North Carolina
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Hurricane Helene will dump historic amounts of rain on western North Carolina come early Friday morning - but the impacts from the storm's outer bands are already being felt well beforehand. The video posted to X shows the Biltmore Village in Asheville. It looks like a...
Western NC impacts: Biltmore Village flooded, Blue Ridge Parkway closed, thousands lose power
The National Weather Service believes Helene's arrival in western North Carolina could be one of the region's most significant weather events of the modern era. The guidance serves as a stern warning for North Carolinians in the mountains, with flood totals projected to be comparable to the 1916 flood in the Asheville area. Weather officials with the Greenville-Spartanburg bureau of the NWS expect the impact to be greater than that of Tropical Storm Fred, which caused at least five deaths in Haywood County in 2021.
North Carolina hospital named among 20 best in the country by US News & World Report
A Triangle hospital made U.S. News & World Report’s list of the 20 best hospitals in the country. Duke University Hospital in Durham is on the publication’s Best Hospitals Honor Roll, and it’s the only North Carolina hospital to make the list.
North Carolina removes 747,000 from voter rolls, citing ineligibility
North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 people from its list of registered voters within the last 20 months, officials announced Thursday in a press release. The State Board of Elections in the release said the majority of those stripped from the rolls were deemed ineligible to be registered because they had moved…
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