( NewsNation) — North Carolina Hurricane Helene victims are struggling and feeling forgotten as winter approaches. Temperatures are dropping, and many hurricane survivors are living in tents or trailers without insulation. More than 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Helene across Western North Carolina.

Seven weeks after Hurricane Helene damaged parts of the southeast, students in one western North Carolina county are still out of school.

Officials with the North Carolina Department of Transportation estimate that a portion of I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge will be open to traffic by the start of the new year.

It’s a story of hardship and hope and community, and it gently illustrates the same regional grit and heart that we’ve witnessed in the people of Western North Carolina in the devastating wake of Hurricane Helene. It was the regionality and subject ...

Our community college system’s economic development division is working alongside the 58 community colleges to leverage strong ties to industry to support recovery in multiple ways. In the wake of Hurricane Helene,

Heavy rain fell across parts of western North Carlina on Thursday for the first time since the devastating flooding event from Hurricane Helene and many continue to rebuild their homes.

The benefit concert put on by the North Carolina Folk Festival at the Steven Tanger Center on Nov. 7 raised over $40,000 for Hurricane Helene relief, according to a press release sent out Tuesday. The event featured performances from western North Carolina-based bands Steep Canyon Rangers and the Holler Choir.