Think mud-splattered ATVs or dune buggies ripping through the desert. Most places consider these rides “off-highway vehicles” (OHVs), meaning they’re not automatically street-legal.

Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel says they’re trying to get the message out on safe and legal use of ATVs, and motorcycles, because they’re seeing a lot of them out on roads that don’t ...

Here’s what to know about what’s “street legal” in the state and the rules of the road for golf carts, ATVs and more. Under North Carolina state law, golf carts can only be driven “on ...