From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will consider closing the recreational harvest by hook-and-line of speckled trout in inland and joint fishing waters from May 1 through June 15, 2025. Enacting a temporary rule will help avoid public confusion given the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries recent proclamation to close […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Companies that offer auto insurance in North Carolina are asking for another rate hike starting this fall, two years after a settlement was reached on an increase of 4.5% in each of the last two years. For drivers that live along the Outer Banks and in mainland northeastern North Carolina, the North Carolina […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A newly-released audit of the U.S. Postal Service’s Richmond-area facility that processes mail for northeastern North Carolina found continued issues that are impacting delivery. One of the main problems identified in the 31-page report was that the Sandston, Virginia, facility ranks in the bottom 10th percentile in employee attendance across the postal service, […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Another rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast was visible over the Outer Banks on Tuesday evening. The exhaust plume from the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket was visible about three minutes after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center as it passed off the coast of North Carolina. Launches from Florida that travel […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Aquatics programs and facilities, more playgrounds, accessible spaces and athletic fields were among the main requests in a needs assessment survey of parks and recreation offerings in Dare County. Nearly 10% of the county’s population participated in an online survey, over 300 people attended community engagement meetings, and the assessment also included eight […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com NOAA Fisheries recently announced that a voluntary slow zone has been implemented off the northern Outer Banks after endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted offshore on Thursday. There are approximately 360 individual North Atlantic right whales remaining, including fewer than 70 reproductively active females. Vessel strikes are considered the primary threat to […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com It was an up-and-down month of November for the hospitality industry in Dare County, while retail businesses saw a lower October than the year before. According to statistics presented at the Dare County Tourism Board meeting on January 16, occupancy collections dropped by 2.8% from the previous year and were down by 4.82% […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A settlement between homeowners insurance companies and state regulators has been reached that will lead to policies costing more across northeastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks over the next two years. And the North Carolina Rate Bureau, which represents companies writing policies in the state, will not be allowed to request an […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Federal regulators on Wednesday withdrew proposed changes to vessel speed limit rules intended to reduce the number of boat strikes suffered by the endangered population of North Atlantic right whales. That will leave in place the current rules, while garnering praise from lawmakers and the fishing and boating industries, along with criticism from […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Work will begin Friday to place massive sandbags alongside N.C. 12 at the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, which the North Carolina Department of Transportation says is a temporary solution to protect the highway from ocean overwash caused by extreme tides and storms. The project is meant to mitigate the type […]
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