The nearly 100-year-old dam suffered damage to its structural supports but was still holding Friday afternoon, officials said ...

On the road from Chimney Rock to Lake Lure, years of work and care transformed an abandoned bridge into a garden oasis. Hurricane Helene wiped all that away. On the road from Chimney Rock to Lake ...

When Hurricane Helene struck and caused severe flooding in Lake Lure, where his older sister and brother-in-law live, Jordan experienced what he describes as a wake-up call. “It hit them right ...

For a while on Friday morning, it looked as if Chimney Rock and Lake Lure had been spared the worst of Hurricane Helene. And then worse than the worst happened, as a wall of water came rushing ...

The town of Lake Lure has received several resources for residents still stuck in the areas of the lake and Chimney Rock.

LAKE LURE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — For a split-second, it sounded like thunder.Both Mike and Susan Coffey were sitting in silence, trying to figure out what was happening outside their Lake ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. The News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer have a collection of stories about ...

WE BEGIN WITH OUR REY LLERENA WHO IS IN HARD HIT LAKE LURE RAY. NIGEL I ACTUALLY JUST SPOKE TO CHIMNEY ROCK’S MAYOR NOT LONG AGO. HE SAYS HELENE DEVASTATED THE VILLAGE, SO SEVERELY THAT ANY ...

Lake Lure, North Carolina is among the most decimated towns across the state. Debris covered the town as recently as Monday with boats, docks, and tree trunks among the items scattered abroad.

Emergency shelters have been opened at Lake Lure Town Hall on Memorial Highway and the Rutherfordton Presbyterian Church on North Washington Street in the town of Rutherfordton, they said.

The Lake Lure Dam, which was feared doomed to collapse on Friday, is stable and emergency repairs are set to begin. At the peak of Helene’s rains, a warning went out that the Lake Lure Dam was ...