The National Hurricane Center has upgraded an area of disturbed weather southeast of Charleston, S.C., to a tropical depression, the second tropical cyclone of the 2016 season, and issued a tropical storm warning for the South Carolina coast. However, even if the depression becomes Tropical Storm Bonnie later tonight or Saturday morning, the system is […]
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Dr. Beach’s annual list of the Top 10 U.S. beaches was released yesterday, just before the Memorial Day weekend, and a beach the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is again on the list. This year the Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach is back on the list again — ranking as fourth in the 10 best. The Ocracoke Beach […]
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The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on an area of disturbed weather northeast of the Bahamas, but so far local forecasters in the National Weather Service office in Newport/Morehead City are predicting only a chance of showers or thunderstorms later in the holiday weekend for the Outer Banks. In a statement this morning, […]
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As many Island Free Press readers know, I volunteer — along with many other folks — at Hatteras Island’s community radio station, Radio Hatteras, which you can find at 99.9 and 101.5 FM on your radio dial if you are on the island or via live streaming at www.radiohatteras.org if you are not. My small […]
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Eight Buxton property owners spoke during a public hearing on a proposed special tax district to help pay for beach nourishment at the Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday evening, May 16. In addition, two Buxton property owners addressed the timing of the beach nourishment project during the general public comment portion of […]
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North Carolina’s new “bathroom bill” is now famous — or infamous, depending on how you view it. House Bill 2 was passed by the General Assembly in an emergency session in less than a day’s time on March 23. Legislators rushed to respond to Charlotte’s City Council’s approval of an ordinance that would allow transgender […]
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The National Park Service this morning closed pedestrian and off-road vehicle access to Cape Point because of breeding colonial waterbirds, including least terns, common terns, and black skimmers. According to Hatteras Island District Ranger Joe Darling, resource management staff yesterday afternoon found 150-plus “scrapes” made by the birds. Scraping in the sand is a breeding […]
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The National Park Service said on Monday, May 9, that Cape Point is still open to vehicles through a special corridor but access is currently difficult at high tide because of by ocean overwash. “Currently, we are experiencing larger than normal high tides and likely will for the next few days,” Hatteras Island District Ranger […]
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The June 7 primary will feature races for the Democratic and Republican congressional districts and also a race for associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The congressional primary was pushed back to June after a federal court in February ordered the General Assembly to redraw its district lines. A separate court ruling also […]
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Darling said that this morning’s ocean overwash — at the high tide around 8 a.m. — occurred throughout the vehicle corridor and at the end of Cape Point. “This evening’s high tide is expected to be nearly a foot higher than in the photographs and cause significantly greater ocean overwash,” he said. “We encourage everyone […]
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