The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $1.9 billion in funding for transmission upgrades, including replacing conductors, installing better technologies to monitor the grid and transmitting power across regions.

The project is already in the federal government’s pipeline. The big question now is how local governments will fund their part of it.

The draft plan includes strategies to reduce serious injuries and fatalities across the Greensboro urban area.

Surry County Schools Superintendent Travis Reeves is leaving the district on June 30 and taking a new role as executive director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators.