Crews are applying salt to roads across Burke and Catawba counties to prevent ice build-up this weekend as preparations ramp up ahead of possible winter weather in the Carolinas. Read More

No charges will be filed after a man was fatally struck by a car in Morganton Saturday afternoon, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Around 6:08 p.m., troopers were called to ... Read More

A view of the flooding from the Catawba River along U.S. Highway 70 in Morganton caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene in October 2024. Buncombe County high school football coach Bryan Craig ... Read More

Interstate 40 was shut down in Burke County after reports of a tractor-trailer fire.The incident happened around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1, around mile marker 100 headed west, near Morganton.Crews ... Read More

A wreck closed Interstate 40 westbound lanes near exit 100 Tuesday afternoon in Burke County. A photo shows a plume of smoke rising from I-40 just after the Jamestown Road bridge around 2:30 p.m. Read More

The driver of the Kia, Jacob Alan Ferguson, 30, of Morganton, was flown in a helicopter to a hospital in critical condition. The 8-year-old girl was in the back seat of the Kia. She died at the scene, ... Read More

It was around 9 a.m. Tuesday when officers responded to the intersection of Lenoir Road (N.C. 18 / U.S. 64) and Shadowline Drive in Morganton for a wreck. Burke County 911 operators received a call ... Read More

Burke County school board votes to go back to pen-and-paper instruction when possible; 2 J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center employees charged with assaulting disabled residents ... Read More

The land company bought the majority of the parcels, located off Interstate 40 exit 104 ... restaurant moved to Burkemont Avenue when the North Carolina Department of Transportation was planning ... Read More

Christopher Alan Smith was arrested by Morganton Public Safety Officers. He's charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver schedule II controlled substance (methamphetamine), driving while ... Read More

The City of Morganton has recently added two more electric vehicle charging stations bringing its total to seven. These charging stations are the DC fast stations and are located ... Read More

Morganton, NC (March 4, 2025) - One person was killed, and another was seriously injured following a wrong-way crash on Interstate 40 near North Carolina Highway 18 late Monday night. The North ... Read More

Matthew Clayton Monday, 50, of Asheville, was charged with driving while impaired on Feb. 27, after someone reported a reckless driver near Enola Road and Interstate 40, according to information from ... Read More

According to the Morganton News Herald, the accident occurred near the entrance of the North Carolina School of Science and Math Wednesday evening. Police said the students were attempting to ... Read More

were using the crosswalk on West Fleming Drive at the entrance to the North Carolina School for the Deaf and a westbound vehicle hit them, according to information from the Morganton Department of ... Read More

Jabaris Rashawn Francis, 36, of Morganton, was charged with two counts of trafficking fentanyl, two counts of trafficking methamphetamine, maintaining a vehicle to distribute narcotics and numerous ... Read More

A cold front is expected in North Carolina next week ... night or early Saturday morning along the Interstate 40 corridor, including Marion, Morganton, Hickory and Statesville, Horne said. '?It's going ... Read More

A cold front is expected in North Carolina next week ... night or early Saturday morning along the Interstate 40 corridor, including Marion, Morganton, Hickory and Statesville, Horne said. Read More

There will be a temporary bridge in place soon at the Fleming Drive bridge at Morganton Heights Shopping Center for the current bridge to be replaced. Read More

A Burke County man was killed in a Sunday (December 8) crash. The deceased is 64-year-old Danny Lee Scott of Morganton. On Sunday at approximately 6:00 p.m., the North Carolina State Highway Patrol ... Read More

James Wilkie Woodard, 36, of John Reep Street, Morganton, was charged with felony hit and run after the an incident around 3:30 p.m. on U.S. Highway 70 just west of the Thrifty ... troopers with the ... Read More

VALDESE - The bridge across Interstate 40 at Exit 113 will soon be closed to traffic as transportation crews begin work on it. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is expected to ... Read More

Michael Keith Barber, 30, of Morganton, was charged with felony discharging a firearm into an occupied property, misdemeanor damage or injury to real property and misdemeanor damage to personal ... Read More

The e-bike was in the left lane on Reilly Road and traveling toward Morganton Road in the area of Cliffbourne Drive. Police said the soldier was rear-ended by the minivan. Read More

STATESVILLE - A Morganton man was killed in a crash on Interstate 40 in Iredell County ... according to a news release from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. The driver of the tractor ... Read More