Georgia’s state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene.

America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.

Some hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will receive one-time, direct cash payments of $1,000 on Friday.

High school seniors in Asheville are grappling with several important life decisions as they still recover from the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene on their region.

Parents and guardians of students attending Broward County Schools should take a look at the revised 2024-2025 school calendar, after an update by the district due to hurricane closures.

North Carolina state legislators have approved over $600 million more toward Hurricane Helene recovery and relief.

North Carolina officials say the catastrophic flooding and destruction from Hurricane Helene likely caused at least $53 billion in damages and recovery needs in the state.

Hurricane Milton’s devastating landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast hit one of the most popular areas for temporary residents who spend the winter months living in the Sunshine State.

A sheriff’s office statement and data from the state show that the North Carolina county that is home to Asheville overcounted deaths caused by Helene by as many as 30.

Former President Donald Trump is blasting federal emergency responders whose work in North Carolina has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation.

It takes water to flush a toilet yet tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago.

Early in-person voting has started in the presidential battleground state of North Carolina.

A sheriff says witnesses reported seeing a group of armed people harassing hurricane relief workers in a remote Tennessee community last weekend.

The White House says the federal government has approved nearly $2 billion in assistance across six states to help people hit hard by hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Tens of thousands of students in the Southeast are dealing with school disruptions after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc so severe — on homes, campuses and municipal power and water systems — that some districts have no idea when they will reopen.

The Small Business Administration has run out of money for its disaster assistance loans, delaying much needed relief for people applying for aid in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

There has been a doubling of petitions by workers to have union representation during President Joe Biden’s administration.

Florida counties hard hit by Hurricane Milton are returning to a semblance of normalcy with power being restored to most areas, gas stations reopening and students returning to school this week.

The devastation of Hurricanes Helene and Milton is still being tallied as a swath of Florida comes to terms with damage from the unusual dual strike of storms in just two weeks.

Vice President Kamala Harris helped pack diapers on Saturday for North Carolina hurricane victims.

Residents in the Sarasota area are starting the process of evaluating the damage, again.

Residents in states hit by Hurricane Helene who had coverage through the federal flood insurance program but let it lapse before the storm hit may be able to renew it and still be covered from the impact.

Scientists say human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton’s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%.

Florida residents began repairing damage from Hurricane Milton, which smashed through coastal communities and tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a deadly tornadoes.

Residents in the Tampa Bay area are surveying the damage left behind by Hurricane Milton.

A federal judge won’t order the state of Georgia to reopen voter registration for November’s elections in the presidential battleground state.

As South Florida braces for the aftermath of Hurricanes Milton and Helene, the nonprofit organization Food For The Poor has sprung into action to support the region’s most vulnerable communities.

Communities in Florida still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene are now also grappling with the still-unfolding damage from Hurricane Milton.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week jumped to its highest level in a year, which analysts are saying is more likely a result of Hurricane Helene — and the Boeing strike — than a broader softening in the labor market.

Hurricane Milton brought powerful winds, storm surge and flooding to much of Florida after making landfall along the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.

At least for now, a federal judge won’t order the state of Georgia to reopen voter registration for November’s elections.

Milton is set to become the second hurricane to strike Florida in two weeks, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is once again positioning supplies and personnel where they’re needed and coordinating with state and local officials.

Hurricanes are forcing changes to Florida's election procedures.

North Carolina legislators have approved an initial $273 million relief package to help address Hurricane Helene’s devastation and recovery in the mountains.

National Guard members who deployed to western North Carolina are still carrying out aid missions nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene.

Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been fighting misinformation since Helene slammed into Florida nearly two weeks ago.

Three voting rights groups are asking a federal judge to order the state of Georgia to reopen voter registration for November’s elections.

Time is running out for residents in the Sarasota County area to either get out or hunker down.

Hurricane Helene flooded the Weissmans' home last month.

Florida communities near Tampa Bay were devastated when Hurricane Helene made landfall two weeks ago about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the north.

The Small Business Administration could run out of money to fund disaster loans in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation.

Explosively intensifying Hurricane Milton is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives.

Hurricane Milton remains a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa and St. Petersburg, engulfing the populous region with towering storm surges and turning debris from Helene’s devastation 12 days ago into projectiles.

Vice President Kamala Harris is calling former President Donald Trump “incredibly irresponsible” for spreading falsehoods about the federal response to Hurricane Helene’s destruction.

Cleanup from Hurricane Milton is underway as residents are returning home after the storm barreled across Florida.

Still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene, people on Florida's west coast are being forced to prepare for another powerful storm as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall by Wednesday.

In the wake of hurricanes that have disrupted lives for millions in the U.S., some people may wonder if extreme weather events could be somehow controlled.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is again forcefully pushing back against false claims and conspiracy theories about how her agency is responding to Hurricane Helene.

Residents of the Tampa Bay area were still cleaning up two-week-old damage from Hurricane Helene Monday as powerful Hurricane Milton again put the devastated region in the crosshairs of a major storm.

Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified Monday morning into a dangerous major hurricane over the southern Gulf of Mexico and is on track to deliver yet another devastating blow to the Sunshine State less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of Florida’s west coast and sweeping Big Bend.

Florida Gulf Coast residents were dealing with a nightmarish déjà vu. They had less than two weeks to recover from Hurricane Helene when they learned they had to prepare for Hurricane Milton.

To prepare for Hurricane Milton, the waterlines for St. Pete Beach, a resort city on a barrier island west of St. Petersburg, are set to turn off on Tuesday morning.

Florida Gulf Coast residents were dealing with a nightmarish déjà vu. They had less than two weeks to recover from Hurricane Helene when they learned they had to prepare for Hurricane Milton.

The U.S. government’s top disaster relief official says false claims and conspiracy theories about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which are being spread most prominently by Donald Trump, are “demoralizing” aid workers and creating fear in people who need recovery assistance.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Milton is intensifying and will likely be a major hurricane before it slams into the storm-ravaged Florida coast, most likely on Wednesday.

Residents in North Carolina’s Watauga County are focused on survival rather than politics after Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the western part of the state.

The death toll from Hurricane Helene has inched up to 227 as the grim task of recovering bodies continues more than a week after the monster storm ravaged the U.S. Southeast.

President Joe Biden’s administration warned Floridians on Saturday that it was time to prepare for the next hurricane.

False and misleading claims about Hurricane Helene are spreading about the storm and recovery efforts.

Nearly 400 miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the North Carolina mountain hamlet of Chimney Rock Village has been all but wiped off the map.

Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged ongoing federal support for those affected by Hurricane Helene as she visited North Carolina.

A well-known Asheville musical tradition has returned in a sign of hopefulness a week after Helene battered the mountain city.

Democrats and civil rights groups are asking election officials in the states ravaged by Hurricane Helene to give voters more time to register for the Nov. 5 presidential election.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is tasked with helping states and communities hit by disasters like Hurricane Helene.

North Carolina health workers are distributing Benadryl and epinephrine injections to communities after hurricane flooding has caused bees and yellow jackets to swarm from their underground nests.

Hurricane Helene’s storm surge struck Florida fast and hard when it slammed into Gulf Coast communities near St. Petersburg.

Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Southeast are still without power more than a week after Hurricane Helene blew through the region.

Month-old twin boys are the youngest known victims of Hurricane Helene.

Masters chairman Fred Ridley says Augusta National sustained a lot of damage from Hurricane Helene, just like the rest of the area.

Brooke Hiers just a month ago left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived after Hurricane Idalia slammed into her home on Florida's Gulf Coast in August of 2023.

Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to locate the missing and those needing supplies nearly a week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the Southeast.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

The death toll from Hurricane Helene continues to rise.

John Savage says he checked on his grandparents in their bedroom as Hurricane Helene roared outside.

Hospitals and health care organizations in the Southeast largely stayed open and functioning during Hurricane Helene to provide essential care for their communities.

Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast.

A new study says hurricanes in the United States are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the government calculates.

Hurricane Helene has left millions without electricity, water and phone service across the Southeast in the six days since making landfall.

Vice President Kamala Harris has handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia.

Hurricane Helene killed scores of people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history.

Power is still out for well over 1 million people in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina five days after Hurricane Helene tore down trees and destroyed much of the electric grid.

North Carolina election officials say they will do everything in their power to ensure that voters in the crucial presidential swing state will be able to cast their ballots despite the devastation of Hurricane Helene only about a month before the November election.

Vice President Kamala Harris will tour damage caused by Helene in Georgia and North Carolina, as the devastating and deadly storm has also roiled the political calendar just over a month from Election Day.

Florida Gov. DeSantis is holding a news conference at Horseshoe Beach on Tuesday, where he is expected to talk about the state’s recovery efforts following a path of destruction that was left by Hurricane Helene.

Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region.

Rescuers are scouring the mountains of western North Carolina for anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast.

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it.

The full impact of Hurricane Helene won’t be known for weeks, but groups from both the public and private sector are mobilizing efforts to help those affected by the Category 4 storm that has killed at least 120 people and already caused billions in damage.

Communities along Florida's big bend have been left severely damaged from powerful Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene is scrambling the presidential candidates’ plans this week.

A crisis has unfolded in Asheville, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Satellite images by Google Maps and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the before and after of Hurricane Helene in Florida's Taylor County.

After Hurricane Helene’s far-reaching force, meteorologists were tracking five systems. None posed an immediate threat to South Florida, but one in the southwestern Caribbean was moving north and getting stronger.

Miami Fire Rescue’s special operations chief leads the dozens of trained first responders with the autonomous South Florida Search and Rescue Task Force 2 who responded to Hurricane Helene’s aftermath.

Fast-moving Hurricane Helene was large and powerful. Its widespread storm surge devastated some coastal areas in Florida, and its far-reaching heavy rains affected Georgia, South Carolina, and mountainous regions in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Many areas of the U.S. Southeast are struggling to recover from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene was big, strong and fast, making it a near-perfect storm to bring widespread death and destruction to the American South.

Authorities are struggling to get supplies to isolated areas across the U.S. Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene and the death toll from the storm is rising.

Satellite images by Google Maps and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the before and after of Hurricane Helene in Florida's Taylor County.