HAW RIVER, N.C. (WGHP) — Farmers in western North Carolina are rebuilding their property, but once the walls, fences and buildings are back, in many cases, some of their animals are still missing.

Tropical Storm Helene swept through Western North Carolina and the Asheville area Sept. 27, causing massive power outages, dam and reservoir breaches and countless downed trees. Widespread cell ...

How many people are working on roads in Western North Carolina? More than 2,100 NCDOT employees, along with 1,100 pieces of ...

In the map below, you can see active incidents in the area marked as red, with active incidents in McDowell County. The full data is available at the North Carolina Forest Service website .

Three wildfires in Western North Carolina are nearing containment after improved weather conditions. The Bee Rock Creek fire is 94% contained, the Haoe Lead fire is 29% contained, and the Sam ...

Wildfire season is not over for Western North Carolina. After fires burned for weeks in March, new fires have broken out in April.. The largest of these, the Haoe Fire, was burning 500 acres in ...

A week after Hurricane Helene roared through, the smell of death overpowers the cool mountain air over the isolated twisting roads of devastated rural western North Carolina.

The Black Cove Fire has burned 3,000 acres, the Deep Woods Fire 3,231 acres and Fish Hook Fire 199 acres. A new blaze, the Rattlesnake Branch Fire, has started.