Guest Column

By John M. Havel The following is a personal commentary by John M. Havel, who is a Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Researcher and a Board Member...

The following is a Letter to the Editor from Lorelei Costa, Executive Director of the Outer Banks Community Foundation. In the weeks since Hurricane Dorian...

The Outer Banks lost a friend and icon this past weekend. John Hunter passed away Saturday at his home on Raymond Ave. in Kill Devil Hills. John has been on the Outer Banks since the 1970s, and was a real estate appraiser, sailor, aspiring writer and actor, a lover of music, food and good friends. He will be missed.

  by Morty Gaskill and Ryan Bethea As directed by President Donald Trump in 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army on...

People, especially our families, ask us why we stay living here on Hatteras Island, especially as we age. They see hurricanes, medical inconveniences and all those stairs! “Is it your love of the ocean?” they ask. Well, yes, but it is really the love, internal warmth and compassion shown to us, by you, this community. As the latest hurricane strengthened and my husband was away, my daughter Kelsey and I spent two days securing our house and boat. We evacuated with our dog, cat and snake. After that, I did suggest to Alan that we should consider moving. “How can we?” he said. “We haven’t paid back the community for all they did for us. We have to stay!” He was so right and here is why.

  By Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua L. Canup Beneath the roiling waters of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, thousands of ships rest in a salty graveyard....