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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Floodwaters pushed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated Saturday by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone ...

Communities across Western North Carolina are in recovery after strong storms, heavy rain and severe flooding battered the state, leaving "biblical devastation," according to officials. Tropical ...

Asheville, located in the Blue Ridge Mountain range, is home to a number of satellite campuses of regional universities like the University of North Carolina at Asheville as well as Asheville ...

Helene produced such a large amount of rainfall due in part to a predecessor event, small (relative to a hurricane) regions of heavy rainfall produced ahead of a hurricane. These rainfalls produce a ...

Two tropical storms converged in the mountains of North Carolina in July 1916 and brought such rapid flooding that people in Asheville had to climb trees and hang on as water rushed past.

Preliminary assessments of the Asheville water system revealed that the storm had caused severe damage, said Assistant City Manager Ben Woody Saturday. “This means that extensive repairs are ...

PERRY, Fla. — Authorities rushed to airlift supplies and restore communications and roads in flooded Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday as residents along the storm-battered Florida coast ...

Travelers have made their way to Asheville, North Carolina for more than a century ... style Inn On Montford was built by Richard Sharp Smith, supervising architect to Biltmore House, and is ...