President Biden approved the deployment of up to 1,000 active-duty U.S. soldiers to reinforce North Carolina National Guard members in the state.

Many residents of the Carolinas still lack running water, cellphone service and electricity as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for.

These are the live updates for Oct. 2 following the destruction of Hurricane Helene, which came through Western North Carolina Sept. 26-27.

Days after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on the Carolinas, thousands are still without power. Crews from as far as Canada are working to get power restored, but how soon will that be? Jeff Brooks with Duke Energy joined Queen City News to answer some questions regarding the outages and when

Just under 580,000 Duke Energy customers are still without power across the Carolinas following Hurricane Helene’s destruction. Well over 1.3 million customers were without power on Friday, Sept. 27,