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Tropical Storm Helene

Public safety crews were out in the storm before daw, as huge trees fell around them in the dark. A year later, some first responders are still getting their heads together.

Helene+1: What the first responders saw (and didn't) in Aiken

In Part 2 of our look at South Carolina one year after Hurricane Helene, a pair of first responders in Aiken share their thoughts about the scariest night at...

In Greenwood, a Helene survivor is about to move back home

Weathering a new normal: Bleak conditions persist 3 months after Helene crippled western North Carolina

A Greenville mother's evacuation from a storm highlights the high cost of extreme weather

Black Balsam Knob summit on the Art Loeb Trail, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville

Hurricane Helene changes the landscape of fall foliage in the Carolinas

Each year around this time, sightseers enjoy taking in the natural beauty of the changing colors of fall foliage, in particular along North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway. However, this year will be...

These days, Edward Phillips tends to look past this house on Huckleberry Creek in Cheraw. The house in this photo used to be Phillips' dream retirement home. But when floodwaters washed him and his wife out, the couple took a buyout and moved up to the top of the bluff. He's still wistful for what might have been.

On Huckleberry Creek, a dream home becomes a flood buyout

It’s hard not to notice the bittersweet wistfulness in a name like Huckleberry Creek; how much it sounds like the echo of a time and place that probably never actually existed, but feels like it...

Helene and the Misinformation Storm

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for October 8, 2024: the latest from the federal government’s response to Helene in our state, and a report from Scott Morgan on neighbors helping neighbors...

At its worst, power outage in the Upstate was almost total following Tropical Storm Helene. For most of the region, power is back for 90 or more percent. But some counties, like Edgefield, are having to essentially rebuild their power networks.

Number of Helene-related deaths in SC climbs to 48; power slowly returns to Upstate

By Monday morning, the number of deaths attributed to Tropical Storm Helene in South Carolina reached 48. Hardest hit to date are Aiken, Spartanburg, and Greenville counties, which have officially...

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