News | Latest Breaking News Stories & Headlines

Hurricane Florence may have depressed restaurant and retail payrolls in September, new figures show

US job growth slows but unemployment rate falls to 3.7%

US job growth slowed sharply in September as Hurricane Florence depressed restaurant and retail payrolls.

A woman is carried from her home in Spring Lake, North Carolina, as flood waters seep inside

Further flooding looms as Florence death toll hits 23

Deeper flooding looms in the days ahead from rivers in the Carolinas swollen by Storm Florence, as the death toll following the storm rose to 23 people.

Storm Florence • 17 Sep 18

Avair Vereen, her fiance and their baby take shelter at a school in Conway South Carolina

Thousands take to shelters to wait out Florence

A mass evacuation has taken place in North and South Carolina ahead of Hurricane Florence and thousands of people will wait out the storm in shelters.

Hurricane Florence • 14 Sep 18

Residents wade through floodwater to retrieve belongings after the Neuse River went over its banks in New Bern

Four killed as Tropical Storm Florence lashes US

Tropical Storm Florence has hit North and South Carolina, knocking down trees, swamping streets with torrential rain, and causing four deaths before slowing to a pace that will lead to a days-long deluge for the region.

Hurricane Florence • 14 Sep 18

Neighborhoods are empty of residents as the effects of Hurricane Florence begin to bear down

Flood threat looms as US braces for Hurricane Florence

Winds from Hurricane Florence have begun whipping coastal North Carolina as the slow-moving storm began to unleash fierce rains that forecasters have warned would cause catastrophic flooding across a wide area of the US southeast.

Hurricane Florence • 13 Sep 18

More than one million residents have been urged to evacuate

Hurricane Florence expected to be 'extremely dangerous'

Hurricane Florence is forecast to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it nears the coast of the United States, the National Hurricane Center has said.

Hurricane Florence • 12 Sep 18

Florence is currently a Category 4 storm, the second-strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale

One million told to flee as Hurricane Florence nears US

Around one million people have been ordered to evacuate from the South Carolina coast as the state and neighboring North Carolina brace for a hit from Hurricane Florence, the most powerful storm to take aim at the US mainland this year.

Hurricane Florence • 11 Sep 18

Hurricane Florence