A military veteran ... with recovery efforts in western North Carolina. Cody Kubinak owns a landscaping business in Swansboro. He grabbed four friends and his equipment and hit the road.

Cooper called Helene’s disaster response the “fastest and largest integration” of military soldiers in North Carolina, with 3,100 soldiers and airmen from 12 states responding in western N.C ...

The bans focus not just on national security concerns but on two of the state’s most important economic drivers: the military and agriculture ... Wake County, and western Wake County in ...