Fueled by a $365 million capital investment, Food Lion is ready to unveil remodeled stores in the greater Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area and in Mecklenburg County, Va., the company announced.

The Salisbury, N.C.-based grocery retailer will hold ribbon-cutting events at 167 stores on Aug. 21. 

Food Lion unveils new grocery store in Garner, North Carolina

The upgraded stores include a new, broader product assortment and meal solutions that are ready to eat, ready to cook, and ready to heat. 

Stores will also feature the retailer’s fresh & simple-branded meals, and nearly all stores are introducing self-checkout lanes. 

An enhanced locally grown assortment of produce now includes 25 to 30 seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Customers also will have access to an ecommerce solution in all stores, including Food Lion To Go pickup and home delivery options. Online orders may be placed on the Food Lion To Go website or through the app.

In addition, Food Lion’s remodeled stores feature energy-efficient LED lighting and refrigerated cases with doors to help reduce the grocer’s environmental footprint. 

During the ribbon-cutting events, the first 100 customers will receive giveaways and a gift card, with a chance to win a grand prize of $1,000 in Food Lion gift cards.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — North Carolina is set to unveil new school buses for the 2024-2025 school year.

The new buses come with new technology, and that means bus drivers will need to get some updated training.

DMV Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is scheduled Tuesday to show off the new technologies and how bus drivers will be trained on those technologies. Goodwin will also explain new safety protocols in place on school buses.

Lately, schools in the Triangle and across the state have been desperately looking to hire more bus drivers. Those new recruits will likely be exposed to this new training regiment.

The new school buses were purchased using funding set aside in the last year by Gov. Roy Cooper.

ABC11 will be at this demonstration for the new buses. Check back to this article later for more details.

Viral footage shows a beach house in North Carolina collapse and float away into the Atlantic Ocean as Hurricane Ernesto ravaged the east coast.

On Friday, Aug. 16, a home in Rodanthe on Hatteras Island was swept into the ocean due to a swell from the hurricane, according to a Facebook post from the Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue, which advised residents to steer clear of the water because “debris will be washing around” for days.

The home was unoccupied at the time of its collapse and no injuries were sustained in any of the homes that collapsed in the area, the National Park Service (NPS) confirmed in a release, which noted that the Rodanthe home is the seventh house to collapse on Seashore beaches in four years.

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge said they have been in communications with the property owner and “a debris removal contractor” had yet to be obtained. 

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“Significant debris removal efforts” aren’t expected to take place “until after the elevated sea conditions subside,” which Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials said could be sometime this week.

The Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue alerted residents on Aug. 16 that additional homes could be at risk of “collapse over the next few days.”

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Monday, Aug. 19, “Ernesto is moving toward the northeast near 28 mph. A turn toward the northeast and east-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected during the next couple of days.”

As the storm strengthened, forecasters warned that Ernesto would bring dangerous swells and rip currents along the East Coast, per NBC News.

The NHC said the center of the storm is expected to pass “near southeastern Newfoundland” on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday, Aug. 20.

NHC said maximum winds “are near 90 mph” with higher winds expected, adding that “Ernesto is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone by early Tuesday.”