Some North Carolina school districts remain closed after Hurricane Florence, leaving the prospect of make-up days looming. State law requires schools to be in session for 185 days a year. But some state leaders want to ease statewide attendance requirements for counties affected by the storm. NC Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson and House Speaker Tim Moore this week said they hope to exempt school districts hit hard by Hurricane Florence from the state’s calendar requirements….

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Thousands of people are still being housed in shelters across our state and many like Tabitha Williams of Morehead City don’t know when they might be able to go home. “It’s just devastation back home,” she told ABC11. Williams and her four daughters, all younger than 8, left their coastal town as Hurricane Florence was barreling toward the Carolina coast. They’ve been in shelters ever since and are now at…

By Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter Morrisville, N.C. — Dozens of volunteers loaded boxes of donations into RDU International Airport’s general aviation wing for private pilots to take to areas affected by Florence. The project, A Just Florence Recovery, has become part of Operation Airdrop, a Texas-based nonprofit created to help Texas residents in places hurt by Hurricane Harvey last year. In and around North Carolina, more than 100 volunteers joined A Just Florence Recovery in…

By Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times The record-breaking rains that started with Hurricane Florence are continuing to strain North Carolina’s hog lagoons. Because of the storm, at least 77 lagoons in the state have either released pig waste into the environment or are at imminent risk of doing so, according to data issued Tuesday by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. That tally more than doubled from the day before, when the department’s count…

US Customs and Border Protection assist with search-and-rescue efforts after Florence Sep 19, 2018 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations rescue two adults and a dog from the Cape Fear waterway during the early evening hours of Sept. 17, 2018. By

President Donald Trump revisited the topic of Lake Norman during a Wednesday visit to survey North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence flood damage. On Wednesday, he wanted to know how it fared during the hurricane, asking one local official: “How is Lake Norman doing?” according to the News & Observer. “I love that area,” Trump was reported saying. “I can’t tell you why, but I love that area.” Lake Norman is home to Trump National Golf Club,…