FEMA is now on the ground with disaster recovery centers open in several Eastern Carolina counties while the feds have added four more counties to the disaster list.

An Elizabeth City councilman is accused of threatening an electricity repair worker because the councilman was angry about which neighborhoods were being restored first.

Red Cross volunteers, along with community partners, continue to help those affected by Irene with bulk distribution sites.

Patience is wearing thin among the hundreds of thousands of people up and down the East Coast still waiting for the electricity to come back on after Hurricane Irene knocked out the power last weekend.

Currituck County Emergency Management spokesman Randall Edwards said Thursday that officials are waiting for the high tide to recede to determine whether the water at Corolla was safe.

Dare County officials say residents of Hatteras Island will be able to return to their homes in stages during Labor Day weekend.

East Carolina University has now revised the estimated cost of repairs from Hurricane Irene to $1.7 million.

Governor Perdue visited a tobacco farm Thursday to have a look. She also signed an executive order to make it easier for state crews to remove storm debris from farms and for farmers to burn storm-related trash.

There are more reports of fish kill today in the east, another result of Hurricane Irene and the massive amount of rain she dumped.

Gov. Beverly Perdue has secured federal approval for public assistance, not individual assistance, to 20 counties in eastern North Carolina to help with recovery from Hurricane Irene.

Nationwide Insurance has claims representatives and humanitarian relief teams standing by at a Kinston supermarket to provide aid to Hurricane Irene victims.

The Department of Transportation is beginning pickup of storm-related debris along state-maintained roads in North Carolina counties most severely impacted by Hurricane Irene.

Homeowners who found themselves in the sights of Hurricane Irene may soon be targeted by scammers looking to profit from their pain.

Crews have been working non-stop and through all kinds of conditions to get power restored as evidenced in this picture.

Days after Hurricane Irene took of the end of the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier in Emerald Isle, it reopened.

The city of New Bern continues to clean up debris around the city from Hurricane Irene.

Preliminary numbers for agricultural losses are in for Pitt and Martin Counties.

Officials say no decision has been made on when residents of Hatteras Island will be allowed to board ferries to head home.

Hurricane Irene didn't interfere with Mother Nature on the Cape Lookout National Seashore. "Aftermath" is believed to have been born on Sunday.

Gov. Beverly Perdue got the news during a briefing Wednesday at the state's emergency response coordination center in Kinston. She said she agrees the damage is too severe for visitors to be accommodated.

The head of the federal disaster assistance agency says recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irene will proceed regardless of a dwindling emergency fund.

A fire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is 90 percent contained, thanks to a drenching from Hurricane Irene. But the storm has left firefighters with a new challenge.

The only thing worse than getting flooded out of your home once is getting flooded out of it twice. Or, for that matter, over and over again.

Efforts to restore power ran into a roadblock after authorities say two people stole an electric truck and led troopers on a chase through three counties.

Tyrrell County got hit not once but twice from a confirmed tornado before Irene and then flooding from the storm.