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Former President Donald Trump used a Monday visit to North Carolina to repeat debunked lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.

Experts have warned that state residents with private wells should boil or test their water before drinking it.

Twenty-six people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina in the wake of the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene, officials said Monday.

Some nursing homes in the Asheville, North Carolina area are still without water, three weeks after Hurricane Helene.

In areas like Buncombe County, people are drilling wells to have a backup water source in the event of future weather-related crises.

Entering a fourth week of recovery, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., on Sunday said “all of western North Carolina is open ...