Once a place of both vast and intimate beauty, a lake community is now a repository of wreckage and fading hopes.

A popular tourist destination, it is now one of many communities that has been both utterly transformed and largely cut off ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Residents in the neighboring resort town of Lake Lure said Chimney Rock was largely flattened. “Everything along the river is gone,” said Tracey Stevens, who worked at the Chimney Rock brewery ...

Chimney Rock and Lake Lure in western North Carolina appear to have been devastated by flooding after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. Census data from 2022 indicate 220 people live in ...

As rescue efforts continue, community members are mourning the loss of two beloved landmarks in Lake Lure North Carolina, that were swept away in floods brought by Tropical Storm Helene.

LAKE LURE, N.C. — The Lake Lure Dam is no longer at an imminent risk of failure, emergency management officials in Rutherford County posted on Facebook shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. LAKE LURE DAM ...

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 ...