Helene

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that $2.9 million worth of federal funding would be put toward increasing crisis counseling services for North Carolinians impacted by Hurricane Helene. 

The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus says news reports that quoted him saying the North Carolina Legislature should consider allocating the state's presidential electors to Donald Trump before the votes are counted were taken out of context.

The nature park is next to but separate from Grandfather Mountain State Park. That site, like all state parks west of Interstate 77, remains closed.

A portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Blowing Rock area has been reopened to traffic.

A sheriff's office statement and data from the state show that the North Carolina county that is home to Asheville overcounted deaths caused by Helene by as many as 30. The information in the statement on Tuesday significantly reduces the death toll from the historic storm.

Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for 

Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has bee