Cape Hatteras National Seashore law enforcement rangers are looking for a dog that bit a 2-year-old boy in the face on the beach in Waves about noon on Thursday. According to Tim Havens, NPS acting chief ranger, Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials are being assisted by Dare County Animal Control and the Dare County Sheriff’s […]
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Watch for baby turtles crossing the sand…WITH VIDEO
Back in the spring when Cape Hatteras National Seashore natural resources staff members were considering what modifications they could make to wildlife buffers to meet the requirements of legislation passed by Congress in December, they had no idea what they would be in for come mid-summer. One of their modifications that became effective in mid-June […]
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Day at the Docks celebration is topic of radio show
The annual Day at the Docks celebration in Hatteras village was the topic of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” on Sunday, Sept. 6. The guest for the interview was Jon Kelmer, who is the chairman of the Day at the Docks Committee of the Hatteras Village Civic Association. Day at the Docks […]
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Are passenger-only ferries in our future?
Ed Goodwin, director of the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division is what you might call “bullish” on the idea of running passenger-only ferries between Hatteras and Ocracoke villages. He enthusiastically endorsed the idea while he answered questions from curious citizens and members of the media who attended two public meetings earlier this week […]
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Erika fizzles, Florida braces for heavy rain
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 takes aim at Florida
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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Cape Point will reopen to vehicles on Sunday, Aug. 30
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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Erika’s future won’t be clear for another couple days
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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Erika still a weak tropical storm heading quickly west
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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Erika becomes fifth tropical storm of the season
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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