Flooding driven by the September hurricane cut the fall rafting season short and devastated this mountainous region on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Miles of railroad tracks and entire houses ...

For many, the Nolichucky River is a place to admire nature's beauty, but during the floods from Helene, the river became a destructive force. Helene, really it’s unprecedented in terms of the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Patrick Mannion, owner of Osprey Whitewater, looks over the Nolichuky River, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Erwin ...

and the navigability of the river.” Mannion said it is perplexing that he had to go through a long, arduous process to get a permit to run rafting trips on the Nolichucky from the Forest Service ...

and the navigability of the river.” Mannion said it is perplexing that he had to go through a long, arduous process to get a permit to run rafting trips on the Nolichucky from the Forest Service while ...