Aerial views of towns and communities in Western NC show the impact Helene had. Take a look at the before and after photos here.

The publication has given attention to WNC many times, including coolest towns for summer vacations, most beautiful drives and strangest attractions this year alone. A new list, honoring nine towns as ...

Lake Lure and Chimney Rock are neighboring North Carolina mountain towns with a lot to offer visitors. As their names imply, the town of Lake Lure is home to one of the most popular lakes in North ...

Chimney Rock, Lake Lure residents seek info on friends, family after Helene: 'Once a town is now a river' Lake Lure Flowering Bridge near Chimney Rock reportedly swept away by Helene floods ...

Chimney Rock State Park reopened June 27, nine months after Helene devastated the area. Local officials celebrated the ...

Search and rescue workers were fanning through the small town of Chimney Rock east of Asheville Monday after it was almost entirely wiped out.

Mountainside North Carolina towns have been “forever changed” and cut off from the world by the wrath of Hurricane Helene — with residents calling the destruction “absolutel… ...

In Chimney Rock, photos show the once-idyllic village covered in mud and debris, with about half of the businesses on the southern side of the town near Broad River gone from the massive flooding.