Typically after tragedy strikes a community you hear about how it brought people together.

This is not that story.

Two weeks ago, McClatchy received a report that U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from Banner Elk, ...Read More

HAZLEHURST, Ga. — “Good morning, baby. I missed you,” Principal Shelly McBride said, leaning over one of her tiny students. The child murmured something. “Oh, I love you, too,” McBride said.

Her goal was to ...Read More

HAZLEHURST, Ga. – I’m a Southern-to-the-bone, fried chicken and grits-eating, always barefooted small town girl. Simplicity, in an otherwise crazy, untethered world, is my wealth, my richness, my life.

But my hometown...Read More

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is proposing $3.9 billion in state Hurricane Helene relief for the western part of the state devastated by flooding.

Total damage in Western North Carolina is estimated ...Read More

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Florida’s largest open water estuary and the millions of people who have built their lives around it barely had enough time to detox from the last hurricane-fueled wave of pollution before the next ...Read More

The winter could be warm. Rains that might otherwise fall across South Mississippi may instead veer away. And dry breezes that would normally relieve the region of its thick summer heat could bring a new risk: wildfires.

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