A roundup of what’s happening across Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, as of Sept. 30.
Holding on in Western NC, three days after Helene is a story from Carolina Public Press, an award-winning independent newsroom. Our …

A lot went wrong in the scramble to respond after a train carrying highly volatile vinyl chloride and other chemicals derailed in 2023. The lessons can help ensure safer responses in the future.

Eric Adams, the New York mayor facing an indictment that could end his career and send him to jail, long boasted that his swagger was good for the city. But swagger doesn’t make a good mayor._

Compared with voters who are trying to have kids or haven’t decided yet, those who definitely don’t want to have kids – known as the ‘child-free’ – have a different set of political priorities.