County Manager Avril Pinder reviewed progress in electricity restoration from Duke Energy, the biggest electricity provider in the state of North Carolina. As of 9 a.m. on Oct. 8, more than 59,000 Duke Energy customers in Buncombe County were still without power,

More than a week after storms from Hurricane Helene ripped through the Southeast, hard-hit Western North Carolina is still recovering.

New before and after satellite photos paint a grim picture of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in parts of western North Carolina that have been hard to access after the storm swiped away the state’s roads and bridges.