A 20-foot Fraser fir in Avery County was chosen to be the next White House Christmas tree. The selection Monday came weeks after Helene devastated much of western North Carolina. Channel 9′s Dave ...

Federal funding is set to help Avery County rebuild its senior center, which was destroyed by flooding from Hurricane Helene.

Avery County is one of the spots in our area where Helene hit the hardest. Channel 9 was with rescue crews Tuesday as they searched for survivors. By Wednesday evening, the death toll from Hurricane ...

AVERY COUNTY, N.C. (WJHL) – UPDATE – Power has been fully restored for Mountain Electric Cooperative customers in Avery County. An outage occurred on Thursday morning around 7:30 a.m. due to a piece ...

At 12:55 a.m. on Saturday, the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC issued a winter weather advisory valid for Sunday between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. for Avery County.

Avery County Schools will have a remote learning day on Dec. 9 due to weather conditions, while Caldwell County Schools will ...

NEWLAND, N.C. — For the first time in almost six weeks, students in Avery County are back in the classroom. On Wednesday, 1,800 students returned to school while road crews continue to work seven days ...

AVERY COUNTY, N.C. — Boards of elections across several mountain counties are working to ensure people impacted by flooding will be able to vote. Early voting in North Carolina starts in just 10 days, ...

The long climb to Banner Elk follows switchbacks tangled with power lines, blocked by tree trunks and complicated by a two-lane highway reduced to a pile of boulders, and when you reach the top, you ...

AVERY COUNTY, N.C. (WJHL) — The Avery County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) revealed deputies arrested a man wanted out of Carter County for questioning in a homicide. Sheriff: Missing Dickenson Co. woman ...