Among other things, the funds can be used toward voluntary property buyouts in high-risk flood areas and home repair and replacement.

But now, Recycled Reads, which opened in 2009, may face closure at the end of its lease in March if council members choose to ...

Officials from the Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina and N.C. Emergency Management were speaking in front of a legislative hurricane recovery committee.

Senate compromise increases funding for NIH, safeguards Department of Education, & invests in and restores services at 988 ...

Asheville City Council will hear about the proposal to loan $10 million to a Durham-based nonprofit that specializes in loans for affordable housing developers.

His car and four others on his block were totaled, he said. Ring camera footage caught by a neighbor revealed that the damage was due to a reckless driver.    Five years later, reckless ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would make the process of qualifying for hospital financial assistance easier for some patients. Assembly Bill 1312 would require hospitals to ...