Remnants of Hurricane Helene shut down a North Carolina factory that supplies critical IV fluids to hospitals across the country. There's no timeline for when production will resume at the facility.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and several state officials gave an update on response efforts in areas that were hit the hardest by Hurricane Helene.

Some colleges in North Carolina had to evacuate their students after flooding from Helene left them without power, running water, and cell phone connectivity.

When the lights went out in western North Carolina, communication between community members was set back decades. Meanwhile, their loved ones out east and in other states struggle to sift through a worldwide web of information to keep their families and friends informed inside the blackout zones.

Gavin Smith leads the graduate certificate program in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design at NC State University. He says it’s a fine line of balancing local “nimbleness” and knowledge of the backroads with outside expertise and resources.

Cleanup efforts continue in South Carolina after Hurricane Helene ripped through the Palmetto State last week. State emergency management officers and Gov. Henry McMaster gave updates on the status of the state during a news conference.

Bakery owner Manolo Betancur collected donations this week for hurricane victims. Betancur and volunteers packed up and headed to Marion Thursday morning to drop them off.

As recovery efforts continue in western North Carolina, state education officials are preparing requests to the North Carolina General Assembly for initial relief to public schools there. State superintendent Catherine Truitt presented the requests at the state board of education Thursday. She said she's been in touch with superintendents out west, but there are still many unknowns.

Asheville's water system could take weeks to fully repair, according to city officials. When Helene brought floods to the region, it severely damaged water distribution pipes and washed away roads to the system's facilities. Officials say water service will return to some areas before others. Buncombe County is also in need of water for residents in Asheville and other cities throughout the county.

Helene ravaged western North Carolina last weekend, bringing devastation and destruction to homes and businesses throughout the region. This event has caused major harm to the entire area, which of course includes the music scene.

There are barriers preventing many Latino farm workers in northeastern Tennessee from trying to get help, but the extended Latino community is bringing the help to them.

President Biden says Congress needs to shore up a small business disaster loans fund, and fast. Meanwhile, the response to Hurricane Helene has become a presidential election issue.

Many of Helene’s effects are individual and heartbreaking, such as the deaths of children, grandparents and others. But the storm's impact is also so outsized that it’s clearly visible from space.

The death toll reported from an average tropical cyclone is 24. But the true toll is maybe 300 times higher—and the losses stretch for years after the storm passes.

Coastal cities often bear the brunt of hurricanes. But as Hurricane Helene showed, extreme rainfall can be life-threatening hundreds of miles away.

Karen Brinson Bell, the executive director of the N.C. Board of Elections, said she hopes to know by the end of this week whether any early voting sites or polling places are unable to be used because of Hurricane Helene.

Some college students in western North Carolina have made their way home to families farther east. But others remain cut off from the rest of the state. The UNC system is sending aid.

While hotels in the area are not at capacity, grocery stores and restaurants in Kings Mountain are slowly opening as power comes back on.

Flooding in western North Carolina could impact how many people turn out to vote in November.

A volunteer organization is operating a mission to help storm-battered western North Carolina out of Concord’s airport.Texas-based Operation Airdrop, a nonprofit, started working Monday at a hangar at Concord Regional Airport sending supplies to those that were affected by the hurricane in the mountains and foothills.