The State Highway Patrol now reports directly to the Office of the Governor with Commander Colonel Freddy L. Johnson Jr.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is now an independent agency, officials said Tuesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCT) — The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) has announced that it will operate as an independent agency, separate from the North Carolina Department of Public Safet… ...

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is now operating as an independent agency, no longer under the umbrella of the North ...

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) will now operate as an independent agency, separate from the North Carolina ...

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. — Three people died and two others were hurt in a deadly head-on crash Friday evening, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

A Lexington woman faces charges after a Sunday crash on US 64 in Dare County that killed 31-year-old Callie Ann Coltrain Coward of Ayden, North Carolina.

One person is dead after a fire engine in Columbia collided with a sedan, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.