But this week, an additional chunk of asphalt fell from the eastbound lane of I-40 and into the Pigeon River Gorge. This ...

HARMON DEN - Along the jagged banks of the Pigeon River Gorge, the crumbled eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 have reduced the road from a bustling four lane highway into a narrow, closed off two ...

Like many Americans, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg saw pictures of what the remnants of Hurricane Helene did to Interstate 40 in Western North Carolina’s Pigeon River Gorge.

A portion of Interstate 40 ravaged by Helene sustained further damage recently after a chunk of asphalt fell away from its ...

The flooded Pigeon River washed away more than a mile of the eastbound lanes of I-40 in the gorge on Sept. 27, severing the main connection between North Carolina and Tennessee. Since then ...

When the Safe Passage coalition started working in 2017 to make Interstate 40 a safer place for people and wildlife through the Pigeon River Gorge, nobody knew that, in a few short years ...

Any hope engineers had that Interstate 40 could reopen soon with one lane in each direction ... More than 10 sites in a ...

A large chunk of asphalt fell away in an eastbound lane of I-40 near the Pigeon River Gorge. Officials said wet and freezing weather contributed to the slide. Crews initially hoped to reopen the ...

The reopening of a damaged section of Interstate 40 near the North Carolina and Tennessee ... 27, a 4.5-mile stretch of road along the Pigeon River Gorge sustained severe damage.