Story by Noelle Harff via UNC Media Hub Photos by Chrissy Wang MARION, North Carolina — When Hurricane Helene tore through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Pat and Charlie Gowan didn’t think twice about staying.…

ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — Rescue workers in Tennessee said Friday they have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there. Rosa Andrade, 29, was one…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene. The Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission voted unanimously Friday…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press ELLERBE, N.C. (AP) — Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that’s shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Strewn across the coastal plains and backroads of North Carolina lie institutions that could be pivotal in the battleground state in Tuesday’s elections — 10 historically…

By MELINA WALLING, Associated Press and AYURELLA HORN-MULLER, Grist Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned…