House Bill 47, also known as the Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I, increases the total allocated funding plan for Helene recovery to more than $1 billion that state lawmakers have already ...

For months, small businesses have urged lawmakers to provide grants instead of loans for small businesses, but the bill stops ...

Hollowed-out homes. Cars entombed by mud. Unpeopled roads. Belongings reduced to dirt and debris. It all took a toll on ...

Sending a slew of social media posts, a reader asks what Amish and Mennonite groups were doing in the area after Tropical ...

Clyde – A former Murphy native and pastor is helping coordinate relief efforts in the most devastated areas of western North Carolina from the flooding that occurred from Hurrica ...

Residents and business owners still recovering from Hurricane Helene say more disaster relief is needed to help western North Carolina as President Donald Trump considers funding changes for FEMA (AP ...

He then said he may soon abolish the agency and instead send money directly to states to manage their own disaster relief ... help from the US,” Trump told reporters upon landing in North Carolina.

“We need the full power and resources of our federal government to help the people of Western North Carolina. It’s not about this agency or that agency. It’s that we need relief.” The ...

He also claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had mishandled efforts to help ... relief funds authorized by Congress. Trump took aim at FEMA as he arrived in Asheville, North ...

Some of Trump's conservative allies have called for reducing FEMA's funding, arguing that states should take on more responsibility for disaster relief ... FEMA NOT to help North Carolina.

Trump visited the area on the North Carolina-Tennessee border to provide an update on disaster relief, following the ... We're going to need your help." Trump took an aerial tour.