The Federal Emergency Management Agency will release an additional nearly $166 million in public assistance funding for recovery after Tropical Storm Helene.

North Carolina recorded 159 civilian fire deaths in 2025, reversing a downward trend. State Fire Marshal Brian Taylor says prevention efforts have been pinched by a delay in federal funding.

Budd says $229M in FEMA aid for Western North Carolina is stalled; federal approvals and a DHS funding fight have complicated reimbursements.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson asked a federal court to force FEMA to comply with an earlier order.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security must restore millions in funding to North Carolina and other states after a federal judge ruled the agencies placed ...

NC AG Jeff Jackson joins motion to release FEMA rebuilding funds ...

Two months after the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ordered to restore a program that helps protect the ...

Part of Interstate 40 after a chunk of asphalt fell away into the Pigeon River Gorge in late December 2024. One of the many post-Helene repairs that the NCDOT has worked on. The Federal Emergency ...

In this Sept. 30, 2024 file photo A FEMA response team member works with a guard member at Crooked Creek Fire Department near Old Fort in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Old Fort, N.C. automation ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Wednesday declared a State of Emergency ahead of an expected winter storm over the weekend. “A winter storm is approaching, and now is the time ...

Since FEMA began administering the program, stations have been cut off from funds for their public safety upgrades.