Month: January 2020

Melinda Sutton with the three Eagle Scout candidates who built five shelters for Ocracats. [photo courtesy Rick Schertz] By Rita Thiel, OcracokeObserver.comCraftsmanship, dedication, and leadership [Read More]

Workers place mats along Pole Road so the cable spool can be moved across the sand. [image courtesy Island Free Press] By: Rory Kelleher, Island [Read More]

[courtesy WRAL-TV] Service was down for Verizon Wireless customers across a large portion of North Carolina on Friday. Local media outlets said the outages stretched [Read More]

Clara Jane Williams [courtesy Kitty Hawk Police Department] A Manteo woman has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug-related death of a [Read More]

Anglers bottom fish for black sea bass over wrecks and reefs using strips of squid or fish as bait. [file photo] The recreational black sea [Read More]

[image courtesy NCDEQ] With the recent lack of significant rainfall, coastal North Carolina has moved into the first level of drought. All or part of [Read More]

Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet tows a vessel after it experienced problems offshore Thursday morning. [USGS photo] Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet on Thursday morning [Read More]

Green sea turtles suffering from cold-stunning on Hatteras Island are taken to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. [N.C. Museum of Natural Resources [Read More]

Outage report at 11 a.m. from DominionEnergy.com. Just over 2,600 customers of Dominion Power in Kitty Hawk and Southern Shores lost power Thursday morning due [Read More]

Shark expedition off the southeast Coast. [Photo courtesy OCEARCH] Data from the shark-tracking nonprofit OCEARCH shows tagged white sharks ranging from adult to juvenile ages [Read More]