I want to help some friends who lost a lot in the storm,” Tracy Bell of Banner Elk said about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts after winning the lottery.

It’s an homage to another float that survived Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Carolina Beach was first chartered in 1925 but the seaside town’s history dates back even further, as people started to ...

Hurricane Helene hit the Western North Carolina region on Sep. 27, causing extensive damage and triggering over 2,000 landslides.