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 […]
Local News | Full Article
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 […]
Local News | Full Article
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 […]
Real Estate | Full Article
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 […]
Island Features | Full Article
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 […]
Seashore News | Full Article
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 […]
Local News | Full Article
The National Park Service has just finished another round of public scoping meetings on possible changes to its off-road-vehicle management plan for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Legislation passed by Congress last December as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Bill instructed the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a public process to consider […]
Editor’s Blog | Full Article
Worsening conditions in Hatteras Inlet spurred more than 100 people, mostly watermen, to come out on a rainy night on Tuesday to attend a meeting in Hatteras village to toss around possible remedies to intractable shoaling in the channel. In recent weeks, sand has choked a section of the channel between the Hatteras Inlet gorge […]
Local News | Full Article
Congressman Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., and several House colleagues from New Jersey are calling on the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council to reconsider proposed 2016 harvest reductions for summer flounder. At its meeting this week in New York City, the council is slated to take action on a recommendation from its Science and Statistical Committee (SSC) […]
Fishing | Full Article
Dare County’s new medical transport helicopter will be on display Wednesday, Aug. 19, at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in celebration of National Aviation Day. In addition to the new aircraft, the county’s current BK-117 medical helicopter will also be on display, along with an array of over 10 other planes and helicopters. Dare MedFlight, […]
Local News | Full Article
