The first home was connected in May 2024 and by January, home telehealth service capability had been installed in more than 100 homes, according to a written statement.

Boone Docs Film Festival at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country highlighted filmmakers from Appalachia and the ...

As the region marks five months since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and ...

State leaders want to hear from you on how to spend a billion-dollar Helene relief grant, according to the Hickory Record.The ...

Located in North Wilkesboro is one of the Samaritan’s Purse warehouses, filled with water purification systems, field ...

A meeting to discuss the grant will be held Feb. 27 at the Western Piedmont Council of Governments' office in Hickory.

Students say they are still being impacted by wildfires and floods that cost them their housing, jobs and transportation ...

Brock Long ’97 ’99, executive chairman of Hagerty Consulting and former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA, 2017-2019). Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation ...

In an ongoing effort to track real-time conditions for local businesses as recovery from the impacts of Hurricane Helene ...

Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited to attend a forum featuring former FEMA head Brock Long and heat ...

Former FEMA head Brock Long and heat policy expert Ashley Ward will speak during a Tuesday event at Appalachian State University in Boone. The event, which is open to the public at no cost, begins at ...

As of Feb. 11, FEMA reported that $372.2 million had been distributed to 154,577 families in the state to assist with ...