Press Releases

A team of structural engineers, architects and urban search and rescue team members from North Carolina traveled to Puerto Rico today to begin work assessing damaged homes and buildings after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks that have hit the island territory since late December.

Authorities have identified the state trooper and suspect involved in Monday afternoon’s shooting in Robeson County. During the course of a roadside safety inspection of a commercial motor vehicle, a trooper was approached by an uninvolved armed individual.

On Monday, January 27, at approximately 5:11 pm, a member of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol was involved in a shooting in Robeson County.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Stephen Jacobs as the new warden of the Lumberton Correctional Institution in Lumberton.Jacobs, 52, had been the warden at the Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville since 2018.

FEMA and the State of North Carolina are announcing more than $32.7 million to reimburse the City of New Bern for Hurricane Florence-related expenses.

As the state observes Human Trafficking Awareness Month this January, ALE congratulates Special Agent and Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Task Force Officer (TFO) Bryan Irwin on his selection as the 2019 recipient of HSI’s Outstanding Efforts in Combating Human Trafficking Aw

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Amanda Cobb as the new warden of the Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough.Cobb had been the warden at the Dan River Prison Work Farm in Blanch since 2018.

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 The State of North Carolina and FEMA are announcing an additional $2.9 million to reimburse expenses to restore hurricane- and tropical storm-related beach damage. 

The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved an additional $1.7 million to reimburse the City of Lumberton for debris removal costs following Hurricane Florence. The approval brings the total to more than $4.4 million to reimburse the city for Hurricane Florence-related expenses.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) has granted a primary agricultural disaster designation for 14 North Carolina counties for losses caused by Hurricane Dorian. 

The State of North Carolina and FEMA are announcing more than $1.6 million to reimburse expenses to repair a Cumberland County landfill damaged during Hurricane Florence. 

On Thursday, it was announced that the US Army Corps of Engineers will allocate $39.6 million for the design and construction of a levee in Princeville, as the historic community continues to recover from unprecedented flooding during recent hurricanes.

The North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) has opened a second application period for grants and zero-interest loans that are available to help local governments recovering from storms that hit the state during the past few years. 

Governor Roy Cooper today shared a list of state government support resources for military servicemembers and their families as thousands of troops from Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune are deployed and redeployed in light of ongoing events in the Middle East.