July 20, 2017
Gov. Roy Cooper has signed legislation directing how $100 million in additional Hurricane Matthew relief funds must be spent and requiring zip line and aerial ropes course owners to get minimum levels of liability insurance. Cooper enacted Tuesday ten more …
August 27, 2015
As 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney soared over a 40-foot ravine at her sleep-away camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the tether attaching her to a dual zip line snapped – plunging her to her death. Her tether had been mistakenly …
July 17, 2015
North Carolina lawmakers want the state Department of Labor to study zip line safety following a fatal accident at a YMCA camp in the mountains last month. The bill was amended recently after a 12-year-old girl died when she fell …
May 28, 2014
The growing zip line industry isn’t regulated by any government authority in Kentucky. The Lexington Herald Leader reported that no federal or state agency is charged with keeping track of the safety of the attractions that allow people to “zip” …