Her question relates to a claim being spread around social media that the government is allegedly paying for 100% of the damage in California, but not in North Carolina. WBTV’s

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They came from New York and Washington, North Carolina and Southern California, New Jersey and Newcastle, and even Europe and China.

The federal response to the California wildfires has so far mimicked the government’s response to Hurricane Helene hitting North Carolina in September 2024. In both instances, President Joe Biden declared disasters and later increased the percentage of costs the federal government would absorb for emergency work to 100%.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Scientists say climate change has likely contributed to the unprecedented and devastating wildfires ravaging Southern California. One factor is the increasing amount of dry vegetation. It is fueling larger and more destructive wildfires. NC State Professor Joseph Roise says there's another issue.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Wildfires recently ravaged Southern California communities, displacing hundreds of people from their homes and destroying neighborhoods in swaths. We can help, even from all the way across the ...

Naomi Girma is reportedly on the move. With its eyes on securing the club's first UEFA Women's Champions League title, Chelsea Women broke the women's football transfer fee record to obtain her services in the backline.

The NWS said up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snow fell in the Houston area. Texas transportation officials said more than 20 snowplows were in use across nearly 12,000 lane miles in the Houston area, which lacks its own city or county plows.

President Trump sat down Wednesday with Fox News host and ally Sean Hannity for his first one-on-one interview since returning to the White House for his second term. Trump has taken questions from reporters on each of his first three days in office,

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.