Breaking News } Flash Flood Watch for Johnston county.

A state program, started in 1989, would pave every road in North Caroilna. It has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and now will upgrade roads that serve few homes.

House transportation budget writers decided Thursday where to absorb an expected drop in gas tax collections next year, and they delivered the biggest spending cut to the state's program for paving gravel roads and improving paved secondary roads.

But DOT might need permission from the legislature before it can even consider the new alternative route, suggested by a Garner consultant.

State troopers said Brennan Lee Perry was thrown off the all-terrain vehicle when it ran a stop sign and the car hit it at N.C. 561 and Reynolds Road.

A Wake County grand jury this week returned a bill of indictment against a suspected drunken driver whose car killed another motorist in the first hours of 2011.

Bahamasair will begin operating twice-weekly flights from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Freeport in the Bahamas on Friday, taking over service that had been provided by Vision Airlines from November through April. The flights go on Mondays and Fridays.

Online:  Citing garage jobs that would be lost and investments put at risk – and citing safety concerns, too – a legislative committee kills a bill that would end inspection requirements for cars from the three most recent model years.

Asked if they would vote for the half-cent sales tax increase for bus and rail transit, 50.2 percent of Wake voters said yes and 6.8 percent were undecided, according to a poll sponsored by the Regional Transportation Alliance, a business advocacy group.

At least 20 people were victims of the same overenthusiastic Cary traffic cameras, but it took a year for anything to change. Now, two council members said Cary could make significant changes to its automated red-light ticketing program.

NCDOT proposes a new route to spare a sports complex and an apartment project; will hold public hearing next week.

More than 1.5 million Carolinas residents are traveling this Memorial Day weekend, mostly on the roads, thanks to gasoline prices that are among the lowest in the nation.

Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

Road Worrier:  Consultants come up with two new maps for the long-disputed leg of the Triangle Expressway in southern Wake County.

Authorities say the pilot and his passenger have survived a small plane crash in Pitt County.

The number of travelers is up for the fourth month in a row, a 2.7 percent increase over the first four months of 2011.

What only weeks ago was seen as a serious threat to the economic recovery could now turn into a stimulus everyone can love. Oil and gasoline prices are sinking, giving relief to businesses and consumers.

Fourteen Wendell Middle School students treated for possible burns after a busted hose spewed steam inside their bus this afternoon.

Road Worrier:  Hundreds of drivers are willing to rack up lots of parking tickets rather than give up their parking spots.

Two people were hurt, one of them critically, in a hit-and-run accident at Lawson and Alston avenues early Sunday, police said.