Options to repair the highway after Helene include a proposal to build steep retaining walls along I-40, which would only ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pledges federal support to fully rebuild the highway through the Pigeon River Gorge ...

During a Feb. 10 visit to Western North Carolina, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a plan that he said ...

Interstate 40, a key commerce route from North Carolina to California, could reopen in a limited manner in about a month, U.S ...

Damage from the storm closed I-40 on Sept. 28. Entire sections of the eastbound lanes sloughed off in the raging Pigeon River. NCDOT officials immediately began designing a plan to reopen the ...

Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge could reopen this spring. Here's the latest on reconstruction after Hurricane ...

Interstate 40 is set to reopen March 1, nearly six months after Hurricane Helene washed out parts of the highway in North ...

HARMON DEN - Gov. Josh Stein has announced a vital pathway between North Carolina and Tennessee, the portion of Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge that was destroyed by Tropical Storm Helene ...

As crews continue to make repairs so that I-40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina state line can be reopened, the North Carolina ...

The primary road connection between North Carolina and eastern Tennessee was severed in late September as flooding in the Pigeon River gorge washed away over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) of I-40’s ...

but heavy rain caused a chunk of asphalt to fall from an eastbound lane of I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge, delaying the reopening. Additionally, Helene-related closures are still impacting more ...

A partial re-opening of Interstate 40 through the Pigeon Gorge with one lane of traffic in each direction will happen by ...