The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development approved a $1.4 billion block grant for disaster recovery in North Carolina last week, intended to benefit communities impacted by Hurricane Helene ...

The North Carolina state ... the House wants to have Helene funding in a bill separate from the budget, unlike the Senate.

“It was astounding that nothing was included in the first relief bill ... damage from the North Toe River during Tropical Storm Helene in late September. Colby Rabon / Carolina Public ...

Helene was the most economically damaging natural disaster to ever hit North Carolina, in addition to the deadliest, Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday as he pressed lawmakers to approve a new ...

The leaders of the new NC agency appeared in front of lawmakers twice already this year to answer questions about how they ...

What if the so-called Public School Operational Relief bill introduced by Republican members of the North Carolina House had ... public and private schools? To pass into law a bill that would ...

Only one, a Hurricane Helene relief package ... to the other times in the House bill. The House voted 69-43 to pass House Bill 415, which would allow North Carolina high school students to ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency did reject a request from North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein.   Stein asked for FEMA to continue paying for 100% of certain recovery costs.   FEMA rejected that request ...

The North Carolina ... Helene funding in a bill separate from the budget, unlike the Senate. The Senate budget calls for adding $700 million to the Helene reserve fund. Johnson said a group of ...