Additional restoration operations will continue in this area including further debris removal and utility restoration.

which will take approximately two months. Once that is completed, NCDOT will start construction of the new four-lane road from Biesecker Road to Ninth Street in the spring.

But that road, like so many others throughout the mountains, is not permanent. NCDOT and its contractors have filled washed-out sections of pavement with stone and gravel and replaced missing ...

Sections of the road have remained closed since the storm, and the N.C. Department of Transportation confirmed Jan. 3 there is no set timeline for reopening. NCDOT spokesperson David Uchiyama said ...