North Carolina has spent decades building an economy around banking, manufacturing, technology, research and increasingly sophisticated digital services. Now another industry is arriving at an extraordinary scale.

Two years after Hurricane Helene crossed North Carolina, the storm remains more than a memory. It is a continuing story of lives lost, homes destroyed, businesses disrupted, insurance claims disputed, billions of dollars committed—and communities still rebuilding.

A North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled that MV Realty, a Florida-based real estate company, violated state consumer protection and telemarketing laws through its controversial "Homeowner Benefit Agreement" (HBA) program, granting partial summary judgment to the state attorney general's office.