Five months after Interstate 40 partially collapsed into the Pigeon River in North Carolina, the highway is reopening March 1. Drivers will once again be able to travel freely from Tennessee ...
After major portions of Interstate 40 slipped into the Pigeon River during Tropical Storm Helene ... step in repairing a critical corridor through the mountains of Western North Carolina. The ...
Drought conditions persist in the Western North Carolina region, elevating the risk of wildfires ... but strong winds in the ...
A crucial stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday, five months after Hurricane Helene devastated the region and severed a key freight corridor.
The flooding Pigeon River washed away more than a mile of ... Before the storm, I-40 was the busiest connection between North Carolina and points west, handling 26,000 cars and trucks a day ...
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A stretch of Interstate 40 through the western North Carolina mountains is reopening to traffic this weekend, months after Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding collapsed ...
Interstate 40 along the Pigeon River Gorge will reopen on March 1 ... Crossing the Tennessee line from North Carolina, a vista of the gorge opens up as excavators and dump trucks bustle below the road ...
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy visitedthe Pigeon River Gorge in North Carolina Feb. 10, 2025 to survey Tropical Storm Helene recovery efforts. These are road crews working on the road ...
I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge is expected to reopen on ... a critical corridor through the mountains of Western North Carolina. The reopening of the road in Haywood County had been delayed ...