That’s not the ocean breeze you hear. It’s the collective tentative sigh of relief from local governments because the House has refused to accept the Senate changes made to House Bill 117, N.C. Competes. While in the Senate, the original bill, an incentives package requested by Gov. Pat McCrory, was amended twice to add the […]
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The National Hurricane Center late this morning upgraded Tropical Storm Danny in the eastern Atlantic to hurricane status — a Category 1 with winds calculated at 80 miles per hour. At 5 p.m. this afternoon, the storm was about 1,030 miles east of the Windward Islands and was moving west-northwest at 10 mph. The Hurricane […]
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Just hours after the Coast Guard urged mariners not to use the South Ferry Channel at Hatteras Inlet, a county waterways panel convened again in Hatteras village to seek solutions to stubborn shoaling in the channel that is being called “catastrophic.” “Recent hydrographic surveys indicate shoaling in South Ferry Channel has resulted in an average […]
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With all the attention that sharks are getting this summer, snakes have been able to slither under the radar as the most sensationalized animal threatening human existence. Usually this time of year, we hear all about the “copper-mouthed, water-headed rattlers” aggressively chasing after people. During my years as a park ranger, I once received a […]
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New technology made public in the spring of 2013 showed that many properties in Dare County seemed to have been mistakenly classified as at risk for flood damage. Residents and county officials were hoping for quick action from the federal government, but delays have pushed back the release date of new preliminary floodplain maps at […]
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Keeping up with the bridge replacement schedule has not been easy since DOT started planning 25 years ago to replace the aging span that opened in 1963. Meanwhile, funds have been poured into repairing the bridge, which has had a safety rating as low as a 2 out of a possible 100. DOT officials say […]
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced today that the final roadblocks were cleared on Friday, Aug. 14, allowing the N.C. Department of Transportation to proceed with construction of a new Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet. Completing the terms of a settlement agreement reached in June, the Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Refuge […]
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The National Park Service today reopened Cape Point for pedestrian access, but it will likely be another two weeks before it will open to off-road vehicle access. According to Randy Swilling, the seashore’s natural resources program manager, the last remaining American oystercatcher chick at Cape Point fledged yesterday, and a least tern colony has finished […]
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Drilling for oil and gas off the North Carolina coast was the topic of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, Aug. 16. The guest for the interview was Frank Tursi of the North Carolina Coastal Federation. A former award-winning environmental reporter, Tursi now is the editor of the federation’s online news […]
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Two things continue to be missing from the General Assembly – a budget for fiscal year 2015-16 and Sen. Bill Cook, R-Chocowinity. On Thursday, Aug. 13, the deadline for producing the state’s budget was extended until Aug. 31. The budget was to take effect on July 1, but is the tardiest since 2002. School systems […]
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