TAMPA, Fla. – A major hurricane had not struck the Tampa Bay area directly in more than a century. That streak ended abruptly last year with back-to-back storms, leaving behind destruction from which ...

Helene Schjerfbeck, "Self-Portrait" (1912), oil on canvas (photo Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis, courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless ...

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Part of Interstate 40 after a chunk of asphalt fell away into the Pigeon River Gorge in late December 2024. One of the many post-Helene repairs that the NCDOT has worked on. The Federal Emergency ...

Helene Rosenblatt, 72, of East Hampton, CT, passed away on January 25, 2026, after a courageous six-year battle with cancer. Born June 5, 1953, in New York City to Janice (Levine) and Stanley ...

A beloved family cat that went missing when Hurricane Helene battered the Southeast region last year was miraculously reunited with her loved ones after 443 days missing. The wayward feline named ...

Helene Marie (Limoge) McHugh, 92, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. Born on June 5, 1933, in Burlington, she was the daughter of Arthur and Grace Limoge née ...

Lynn Austin keeps running the numbers, and they don’t look good. Since Hurricane Helene devastated her community in western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent ...

Helene Mary Paine, 69, beloved sister, aunt, and friend, left our lives just three weeks before her 70th birthday. She was born to parents Albert and Helen in Wilmington Delaware. A classic middle ...

On the recent morning of Sept. 27, a handful of early fall rainstorms rolled into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. By late afternoon, sunshine had overtaken the high peaks and ...

Seventy-nine billion dollars. That’s the official estimate of the destruction left behind by Hurricane Helene as the first anniversary of the storm is marked this weekend in communities across the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — One year after Hurricane Helene, it is hard to come up with a simple answer when asked, “How’s Asheville?” There is recovery, with some infrastructure rebuilt, businesses open and ...