Here's why North Carolina's insurance commissioner says bringing auto rates down is unlikely, and what can and might be done to mitigate climate change risks.

Hurricane Helene triggered more than 2,000 landslides, hazardous spills, and infrastructure failures in North Carolina.

Storm, floods and fires have shifted the balance of risk and reward for many. Yet, even in the face of spiralling insurance ...

The recovery of local governments and utilities from hurricanes Helene and Milton continues but the outlook for next season and beyond is troubling.

Many homeowners now choose to go skip insurance altogether, owing to the difficulty of obtaining coverage at all or even at a reasonable price. Insurance coverage has been diminishing in many respects ...

Just because you don’t see somebody in a FEMA shirt walking on the streets the day after a disaster doesn’t mean FEMA is not ...

Human-caused climate change made Atlantic Ocean hurricanes about 18 miles per hour ... have been less but the recent experience with Helene will change that, he said. Florida and North Carolina ...

President Donald Trump said he was considering "getting rid of FEMA” as he visited hurricane-battered North Carolina on ...

Like Big Tobacco’s ultimately failed efforts to resist paying for the health consequences they hid from smokers for decades, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... leading recovery efforts in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene — as well as parts of eastern North Carolina still struggling ...