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The federal government has appropriated about $5 billion to Helene relief. Stein says that pales in comparison to other large hurricanes, and Western NC needs more.

The Hopscotch Festival returns to Raleigh for its 15th anniversary this week, featuring My Morning Jacket, Earl Sweatshirt and many local and national acts. In this illustrated guide, WUNC's music reporter Brian Burns, a regular at Hopscotch since it started in 2010, takes us through how he gets the most out one of the Triangle's most beloved events.

The credits, along with other financial awards, will also support nearly 22,000 jobs.

For nearly two months, dozens of Chapel Hill residents whose homes were destroyed in the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Chantal have been staying in hotels while trying to find new homes or waiting for repairs to be finished at their damaged homes.

The board also decided not to delay the 1% monthly interest penalties on the district’s debt as previously recommended. Instead, it will cut the rate down to 0.4%, effective October 1.

The funds will cover up to 50 percent of any documented repair costs for bridges or private roads.

Sept. 1 marks what would have been Pepper's 100th birthday. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation of the jazz saxophonist, who started on clarinet at age 9. Pepper died in 1982.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with actor Austin Butler about the new movie "The Bikeriders," which follows a motorcycle club outside Chicago in the 1960s.

Sisters Mai Lo Lee and Beth Lo, who grew up in a large Hmong family, recall their youth spent in a refugee camp in Thailand and on a ginseng farm in Wisconsin.

To shore up childcare in Arizona, a nonprofit has long focused on training informal caregivers -- the family, friends and neighbors who care for a majority of young children in the state.