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In September 2024, Hurricane Helene swept through western North Carolina. Landslides tore apart families and killed dozens. What more could have been done to save lives? And what could be done to save them in the future? Those are some of the questions asked in WCNC's new documentary "Lost Ground: America’s Landslide Crisis."

FEMA cancelled more than $200 million in storm resiliency funding for the state, and the small Jones County town was supposed to get $1.1 million of it. Jackson has sued the federal government over the funding cancellation – saying FEMA doesn’t have the authority to cancel congressionally appropriated spending.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined nearly 20 other states in filing a lawsuit against FEMA on Wednesday. The federal agency terminated hundreds of flood mitigation grants in April. But last week, Tropical Storm Chantal may have foreshadowed the future costs communities will pay if they can’t complete these projects.

New research funded by the UNC Collaboratory revealed that 90,000 buildings have experienced flooding over 24 years, some repetitively.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cameron Hamilton, has been replaced. The shake up comes weeks before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season.

FEMA was created in 1979 with the job of coordinating national responses to disasters, but the federal government has played important roles in disaster relief since the 1800s.

This week, WFAE's Marshall Terry and WRAL's Paul Specht fact-check a claim made by President Donald Trump during a recent trip to Asheville.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein sent a letter Thursday to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell asking to extend its shelter program for those displaced by Hurricane Helene for six more months.

Since Helene hit western North Carolina, workers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been on the ground helping with everything from search and rescue operations to signing up thousands of residents for millions of dollars worth of aid.

Federal officials and Gov. Roy Cooper toured a federally-funded flood control project in Gastonia Friday to promote two programs that help communities nationwide deal with the effects of climate change.