North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner announced on Wednesday that a new round of interest free loans for communities affected by Hurricane Helene are now available in the Helene Cash Flow Loan Program.
State auditors recommend better oversight after North Carolina spent $111 million on Hurricane Helene base camps without tracking key service usage.
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act could reshape zoning, homebuyer aid, manufactured housing and hurricane recovery in North Carolina.
On Tuesday, US Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, testified at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing about how the need for additional disaster relief funding would benefit western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene almost two years ago.
Legislation introduced by US Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-NC10 would establish a flood resilience fund within FEMA.
Heather Millet, NCDOT legislative director, said the department emerged from this year's budget process with additional resources across several programs.
Gov. Josh Stein signed North Carolina's new budget after concluding that its investments in Hurricane Helene recovery, education, law enforcement, and Medicaid outweighed concerns over other provisions.
The latest funding package includes more than $179 million in FEMA Public Assistance grants for 30 projects related to Hurricane Helene, Tropical Storm Chantal, and other federally declared disasters, along with an additional $18 million through FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
As the summer tourism season continues, town officials have increasingly emphasized that the town is once again open to visitors. For local officials, however, reopening represents not the end of recovery, but the beginning of a much longer effort to rebuild.
US Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, said he can’t support a supplemental funding request from President Donald Trump that would help pay for the Iran war among other things because additional Helene recovery funding was not included.
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