Hotline Outer Banks is launching a comprehensive public awareness campaign this July to educate residents and visitors that ...

Newport/Morehead City office has issued a Heat Advisory for Hatteras and Ocracoke islands from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 17, as dangerous […] ...

Mounds of dredge material left without warning in disposal areas in Pamlico Sound dominated heated discussion at the Dare ...

A two-week-old litter of pups born in 2025 to Red Wolf 2359F in North Carolina. Photo by USFWS. Four litters of red wolf pups were born in the wild in eastern North Carolina this spring, giving the ...

The Island Free Press has been recognized with nine awards in the North Carolina Press Association’s annual journalism contest, including two first-place honors for editor Joy Crist and a first-place ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS — Mattie Jane Harber Lawson, age 78, a resident of Kill Devil Hills, NC, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on July 10, 2026. She was born on Nov. 3, 1947, in ...

St. John United Methodist Church (UMC) in Avon. Photo by St. John UMC. The congregation of St. John United Methodist Church will host a Fish Fry and Bake Sale fundraiser on Friday, July 17, in Avon.

The public has a nei way to keep tabs on transportation projects that are underway or upcoming, whether they are in a nearby ...

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area off the southeastern U.S. coast that currently has a 20% chance of tropical cyclone development over the next seven days, according to the National ...

View from the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. Photo by Jack Danz. The NC Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) is accepting applications for FY2027 funding through ...

The N.C. Ferry Division’s Ocracoke Express passenger ferry resumed normal operations on Wednesday morning, July 15, after a ...