A weather alert was issued by the NWS Wakefield VA on Friday at 2:38 p.m. for fire danger until Saturday at 6 a.m. The alert is for Western Currituck as well as Northampton, Hertford, Gates, Pasquotank,

The NWS Blacksburg VA issued a fire weather watch at 1:56 p.m. on Friday in effect until Saturday at 8 p.m. The watch is for Ashe, Alleghany, Surry, Stokes, Rockingham, Caswell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin counties.

Much of North Carolina will reach “extreme” fire danger levels over the next several days, according to a state tracking tool. The heightened fire risk stretches across most of the state, with more than two-thirds of North Carolina counties in either the “extreme” or “very high” danger levels on Friday,

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 portions of the road

Part of Interstate 40 in the North Carolina mountains will open this weekend, months after it was closed following the devastation brought by Hurricane Helene in September. Sections of I-40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line sustained major damage from the storm,

With the damaged section of I-40 preparing to partially reopen on Saturday, March 1, the North Carolina Department of Transportation shared updates into the work that has been done and what drivers can expect to be happening in the future.