An arctic air mass is on its way to the Western North Carolina area. A Hazardous Weather Outlook updated by the National Weather Service at 4:36 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, said that "a wintry mix of snow,

Noticing fewer visits from local bears, a reader asks how Western North Carolina's bears were impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.

Ski resorts reported minimal damages from Tropical Storm Helene and one freshly revamped resort has reopened after being closed since 2023. Here's where you can ski in WNC as the storm eases up: Where: 940 Ski Mountain Road, Blowing Rock in Watauga County. About a two-hour drive northeast from Asheville.

Here is a list of school systems that are closed or operating on delays Friday, Jan. 17, because of winter weather impacts.

In 2025, visitors are invited to celebrate the Blue Ridge Mountain area’s “new openings and reopenings” wrote the Times’ Shayla Martin.

Early impacts of Helene saw the region's home sales and new listings essentially halt, but in the past few months those patterns have changed. By most metrics, the analysis has shown the market to be resilient in the face of the region's worst natural disaster.

As the chill and snow of a winter storm blanketed western North Carolina, blowtorch heat is white-hot on FEMA and Administrator Deanne Criswell.

Western North Carolina received good news Tuesday in its struggle to recover from the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Gov. Josh Stein and HUD Secretary Adrianne Todman announced the region will receive two Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) awards totaling $1.

In Western North Carolina this year, she said, "there are plenty of debris piles and fallen trees as a result of Hurricane Helene, which offer additional ground dens for bears and other wildlife.”