All elevators inside vacation cottages or similar short-term rentals in North Carolina would have to include life-saving space guards in legislation advancing in the state Senate. The measure, which ...

Nearly 5,000 elevators, escalators and lifts in North Carolina are past due for their annual safety inspections, according to information WRAL Investigates obtained through a public records request.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — You see it every time you get on an elevator – a form with the state labor commissioner’s face on it that tells you when the elevator was last inspected. That’s meant to ensure ...