Tropical Storm Helene had a widespread, devastating impact in Western North Carolina. Here’s how many people died due to the storm and how many remain missing.

Airbnb is teaming up with 211 contact centers to offer free, temporary housing to those displaced by Hurricane Helene. Here's how to host or apply.

The Citizen Times is on the ground covering the effects of Hurricane Helene. See all of our stories here, along with videos and photo galleries.

The National Park Service has reopened U.S. 441, also known as Newfound Gap Road, which runs through Great Smoky Mountains National Park between Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As on the parkway, commercial vehicles are prohibited on U.S. 441 through the park.

Hurricane Helene has left a wake of death and destruction across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee after it made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26. Despite being downgraded to a tropical depression, hundreds were killed by the storm, millions are still without power, and the damage is estimated in the billions of dollars.

At least 92 people are still unaccounted for in North Carolina as first responders still sort through the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, weeks after the storm devastated the western part of the state.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the 81 people are missing in western part of the state weeks after Helene slammed into southwestern states