The National Park Service will open a newly constructed parking area, footpath, and off-road vehicle ramp in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Friday, Sept. 4. The new ramp — Ramp 32, is located on the oceanside of Highway 12 between the villages of Salvo and Avon and near the soundside site of the historic […]
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The National Hurricane Center issued its last advisory on Tropical Storm Erika at 9:30 this morning, but left the door open to the possibility that the storm might regenerate over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Erika, a struggling storm for days now, was battered by wind shear, dry air, and finally the mountains of Hispaniola […]
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Tropical Storm Erika, still a weak and troubled system, managed to bring enough wind and rain to the Caribbean islands overnight to cause floods and mudslides that are reported to have taken at least 12 lives. Erika’s eventual path continued to perplex forecasters who have watched its center reform several times now, each time more […]
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The National Park Service has announced that it will reopen Cape Point to off-road vehicles on Sunday, Aug. 30, after a closure of almost five months. The “closed” signs may be removed by the time the beaches open to vehicles at 7 a.m. on Sunday, but it could be later in the morning before rangers […]
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Residents of and visitors to the Outer Banks will be waiting a few more days before forecasters can even make a relatively solid prediction about where Tropical Storm Erika might eventually end up. Erika continued on a path through the Caribbean islands today with winds fairly steady at 45 mph. The storm had slowed down […]
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Tropical Storm Erika remained a weak and struggling system today as it continued moving quickly west across the Atlantic. While the storm is expected to continue its westward movement as a weak and struggling tropical storm into the weekend, there is still a possibility that Erika could threaten the southeast coast, including coastal North Carolina, […]
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A pumping unit at this location historically provided much needed water-level management capabilities for half the managed acreage on this refuge. By manipulating water levels in North Pond, managers have affected growth of aquatics and submerged aquatic plants, which are a valuable food source for migrating and wintering waterfowl, as well as a variety of other migratory […]
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For die-hard bluegrass fans, the festival season can’t arrive soon enough or last long enough. And each festival, from the smallest one-day concert to the three- and four-day tent cities like Grey Fox and Bean Blossom, has something unique about it that induces what bluegrass fans called the “perpetual grin.” On Oct. 8-11, 10 bands […]
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Erika became the fifth tropical storm of the season late Monday night with winds of 45 mph, and today the storm has been moving briskly westward with little change in intensity. At 2 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said the center of Ericka was located 640 miles east of the Leeward Islands, moving westward at […]
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Midway through a study on the feasibility of passenger-only ferry service directly between Hatteras and Ocracoke villages, the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will host two public meetings on the topic on Monday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 1. The meetings will be an open forum, where members of the public can stop by […]
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