Several counties in western North Carolina are experiencing flooding caused by heavy rain from what was Helene.

The Lake Lure Dam is no longer at an imminent risk of failure, emergency management officials in Rutherford County posted on ...

Emergency crews and residents scrambled Friday morning as Helene — the hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm — threatened ...

Water overtopped the Lake Lure dam in North Carolina on Friday, forcing evacuations after Hurricane Helene inundated the area ...

Several counties in western North Carolina are experiencing flooding caused by heavy rain from what was Helene.

In a Facebook post, Rutherford County emergency management said anyone below the Lake Lure Dam needed to evacuate to higher ...

Authorities are going house-to-house and urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate as officials warn the barrier could be nearing failure.

People living near a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains have been urged to flee to higher ground as officials warn a dam is close to failure.

Update: Officials in Rutherford County were watching Lake Lure Dam because water overtopped it. That caused some erosion on ...

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

At Lake Lure, an imminent crisis long in the making was playing out, amid confusing mixed messages from county emergency officials. Due to heavy rains from Helene, water was overtopping and flowing ...

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and ...