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

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 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

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

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

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