The company planned to release financial statements Friday that show its Yadkin River dams have returned profits of between $8 million and $7.3 million in the past three, recession-scarred years.

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa is fighting to renew an expired license to operate Yadkin River dams built decades ago to supply electricity to an aluminum smelting plant.

North Carolina failed to land the large federal stimulus grant it wanted to modernize a key stretch of Interstate 85 through the central Piedmont, but state officials say they've got an alternate plan to begin bridging the funding gap.

Legislators Discuss Funding Options