Cape Hatteras Lighthouse named one of the best local treasures in the South

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is already the king of all the nation’s lighthouses, the unmistakable icon of the Outer Banks, and treasured by locals and visitors alike. This is probably why a survey last summer of over 20,000 Southern Living magazine readers for their The South’s Best 2024 lists ranked the lighthouse in […]

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Outer Banks watermen call on lawmakers to cut dredging red tape

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com At a meeting of a N.C. General Assembly commission in Manteo on Wednesday, members of the Outer Banks’ fishing and marine industries and other local officials called on lawmakers to stop regulatory measures that have hampered dredging of local waterways. A handful of members of the legislature’s Environmental Review Commission spent the day […]

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Coastal low sets new daily rainfall record at Cape Hatteras; More rain expected tonight and tomorrow

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A slow-moving coastal low dumped a record amount of rainfall on the Outer Banks and northeastern North Carolina on Monday, with more rain possible the rest of the week from additional weather systems. The National Weather Service said 3.13 inches of rain had been recorded at Cape Hatteras as of 5:30 p.m. on […]

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All that smoke is from ‘good fire’ – It’s marsh burning season again on Outer Banks

While there are no immediate burns scheduled for Pea Island, early March marks the beginning of the prescribed burning season on the Wildlife Refuges of the Outer Banks. Story from SamWalkerOBXNews.com. It’s once again prescribed burning season in North Carolina, as every year in late winter and early spring, intentional fires are set in marshlands and […]

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Massive internet outage across the Outer Banks and northeastern N.C. reported on Friday

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Government offices, schools, and businesses across eastern North Carolina and on the Outer Banks were affected by an internet outage for Brightspeed and Lumen customers that lasted for more than four hours on Friday. “While doing a routine infrastructure update, we experienced an outage that impacted the eastern part of North Carolina,” according […]

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