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After Helene's catastrophic damage in western North Carolina, conservation groups say an amendment to the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Plan will help recovery efforts moving forward.

Mobile wastewater units bridge the gap as the town brings its damaged sewage treatment plant back online.

Truist Financial Corporation has announced that it is making hundreds of millions of dollars in loans available to residents, businesses and local governments affected by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

Jose Sandoval was one of the voices on Blue Ridge Public Radio broadcasting life-saving information in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. And he started sharing it in Spanish too.

Human traffickers are trickling into western North Carolina to exploit the trail of vulnerability that Hurricane Helene left in its wake, a law enforcement representative warned at a recent North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission meeting.

A career archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service says managers have been engaging in irresponsible and illegal behavior that has resulted in damage to Native American sites across the forested slopes of North Carolina.

Some hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will receive one-time, direct cash payments of up to $1,500 on Friday.

North Carolina officials say the catastrophic flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene is likely to have caused at least $53 billion in damages and recovery needs in the state. Gov. Roy Cooper's administration generated the preliminary figure in a report released Wednesday that also includes Cooper's request to the General Assembly for $3.9 billion.

North Carolina wildlife officials say that since Helene, they have received an increase of reports of bear and human conflicts in the western part of the state.

Officials say federal disaster workers have resumed door-to-door visits as part of hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina. The visits were temporarily suspended after reports emerged over the weekend that Federal Emergency Management Agency employees could be targeted by a militia members.