Roads and bridges that were damaged by Hurricane Helene in late September have seen progress as work transitions from emergency to temporary to permanent repairs.
At Tuesday's briefing on recovery efforts in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene, Gov. Roy Cooper reported that 92 people remain unaccounted after the storm, with 95 confirmed fatalities. He cautioned reporters that those numbers will fluctuate as more reports come in.
The court's seven justices travel to Edenton to address high-profile election cases that already have produced partisan splits.
In the colonial era, regional differences about governance at times were resolved violently.
Driving along Highway 64 from Murphy to Manteo, you can experience the state’s geographical diversity and in so doing hear distinctive, regional North Carolina accents in the mountains, the Piedmont, and eastern North Carolina. Along the way you also can eat barbecue that in one region is taken from the shoulder and another from the...
RALEIGH — In Nash County, a cluster of 13 subdivisions is fighting to keep from being absorbed by the city of Rocky Mount.
There is no perfect way to draw political boundaries. What we can say for sure is that the current system is deeply flawed.
RALEIGH — A total of 454 acres of significant natural resources will be added to South Mountains State Park and an environmental education center designed for people with disabilities will be developed under an agreement between North Carolina’s lead health and environmental agencies, state officials said recently.
RALEIGH – North Carolina should fund repairs of its deteriorating state highways not with new taxes but by ending wasteful road projects, according to a comprehensive new report from the John Locke Foundation on highway expenditures and priorities. The study reviewed 349 major road projects constructed between 1990 and 2003. About $2.5 billion was spent on projects of questionable value, concluded study author David T. Hartgen, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. If that money had been used for road repairs instead, the state’s highway maintenance budget could have been 40 percent higher without raising taxes, he found.
CHARLOTTE — For the first time in 14 years, the General Assembly has added to the number of the projects to be paid for through the Highway Trust Fund. The largest addition was a $350 million, 28-mile portion of the Fayetteville loop, included at the request of Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, D-Cumberland. The Greenville Southwest Bypass was also designated as an urban loop road. Additional interchanges, bridges, or miles of highway were added to the Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem loop projects.
