Proponents of this technique, known as cloud-seeding, believe that it can increase precipitation by around 10%. In the ...

25, through Friday, Oct. 4, WCU will operate under Condition Level 3 (Closed), as defined by ... Air rescue is underway for residents in the Lake Lure / Chimney Rock Village area.

North Carolina residents are mourning after Lake Lure landmark appears to have been destroyed by Helene-related flood waters.

But community members are mourning the loss of two special places that held memories for visitors from far and near ... to carry traffic between Lake Lure and Chimney Rock. When the bridge ...

For a while on Friday morning, it looked as if Chimney Rock and Lake Lure had been spared the worst of Hurricane Helene. And then worse than the worst happened, as a wall of water came rushing ...

Chimney Rock and Lake Lure in western North Carolina appear to have been devastated by flooding after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. Census data from 2022 indicate 220 people live in ...