The remnants of Hurricane Helene ripped through the Western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting a quartz facility integral to the global production of solar panels ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina ... to 50 years of teaching music in Spruce Pine. Then she walked through the stinking ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical ... the North Toe River and battered Spruce Pine, a mountain town in Mitchell County with around 2,000 ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

With the mud ankle-deep inside her music store, and the water stains climbing 8 feet high on the walls, Angie Buchanan said goodbye to 50 years of teaching music in Spruce Pine. Then she walked ...