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 ...

GET 6 MONTHS FREEWhile Gov. Josh Stein asked for $5.6 million in landslide mitigation funding in his May 19 budget request, funding for landslides did not appear in the House state budget proposal ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...