The U.S Department of Transportation has "cleared a number of legal barriers" allowing the N.C. Department of Transportation ...

The N.C. Department of Transportation and its contractors will be able to mine stone from Pisgah National Forest to help rebuild Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge in Western North Carolina, ...

Interstate 40 along the Pigeon River Gorge will reopen on March 1. The road will have one lane open in each direction. Officials are calling for motorists to expect delays and longer travel times.

Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight corridor, a 12-mile stretch of Interstate 40 through North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge reopened Saturday. Though still ...

Truck drivers should be aware that while they will be allowed to travel on I-40 through the gorge, there are no alternate routes available for them beyond Exit 20 (U.S. 276) — despite some GPS ...

New travel lanes installed along I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge near the North Carolina/Tennessee state line. (From: NCDOT) Officials said Thursday that there will also be one lane available for ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation reopened Interstate 40 on Saturday for the first time since Hurricane Helene washed out a section of the interstate in September. NCDOT and contract ...

While the stretch of I-40 in the gorge reopened in early March, long-term repairs are expected to take an additional, longer period of time to complete. It is unclear how much final repairs will cost.

JONATHAN CREEK - Driving west along Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge, the cliffs adjacent to the road have been covered in a gray concrete and soil nails that look as if they were pressed ...