Funding for proposed landslide mapping and mitigation programs has not been in the North Carolina budget since 2018.

After landslides killed 24 people in Western North Carolina during Tropical Storm Helene, funding for programs that would map landslide hazards across the region and create early warning systems ...

Another suggested program, a landslide early warning system, would cost $600,000, according to the committee's report. Such a system would provide county-level departments of emergency management ...

"The mapping is critically important, in my opinion," McGrady said of landslide funding. "I'm sorry to hear that it's gone again." Already, landslide stabilization and mitigation efforts are expected ...

Already, landslide stabilization and mitigation efforts are expected to be costly across the region. Slope stabilization efforts in Swannanoa's Grovemont neighborhood is expected to cost $18.3 million ...