Hampton Roads, Virginia-based TowneBank has acquired the Stanton Taylor Agency, a Raleigh, North Carolina agency that provides insurance and risk management services throughout Raleigh and eastern North Carolina. The agency will be affiliated with Towne Insurance Agency, a wholly-owned subsidiary …
The state agency overseeing North Carolina’s response to Hurricane Irene estimates the price tag on helping individuals and governments recover from Hurricane Irene so far at about $125 million. The Division of Emergency Management provided the total to senators Wednesday …
Mecklenburg County in North Carolina plans to buy more than a dozen homes damaged by flooding last month. County commissioners saidthey plan to spend up to $2 million as part of an effort to remove homes located in flood-prone areas. …
Driving along the back roads of Bertie County, it’s hard sometimes to tell one disaster’s damage from another. That huge old tree, its limbs chopped and stacked after falling across a road, was definitely toppled by Hurricane Irene. But what …
Twenty years after the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history, there are signs that progress in worker safety made after the deaths of 25 people in a chicken plant fire is beginning to wane. The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday …
For Mavis Powers, a lifetime of work and keepsakes were washed away when Hurricane Irene drove a 13-foot storm surge up Muddy Creek and through her home. The 77-year-old doll maker and collector held her head Sunday as she assessed …
North Carolina farmers felt the financial weight of Hurricane Irene’s winds and heavy rains Sunday as inspections following the storm revealed damage to field crops, poultry and other agricultural businesses. State political and agricultural leaders touring eastern North Carolina the …
Hurricane Irene caused between $200 million and $400 million in insured losses in the Carolinas, catastrophe modeling company Eqecat said on Sunday. At 7:30 a.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 27, Irene made its first landfall just west of Cape Lookout, North …
Every property owner in North Carolina has a financial stake in the damage risk posed by Hurricane Irene, which could become the first to hit the state since a new method of paying for coastal storm damage allowed for reaching …
Hurricane Irene washed away homes in the Bahamas Thursday as its battering winds and rain headed toward the U.S. eastern seaboard including densely populated New York and New England. U.S. emergency officials have urged residents from the Carolinas north to …
