Drought has returned to North Carolina for the first time in more than a year. The North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council (DMAC) has identified areas in 12 counties as currently experiencing moderate drought, due to an extended period of below-normal rainfall. Parts of 38 additional counties in eastern and central North Carolina are also [...] Local News |  Full Article

The Ocracoke Waterways Commission’s meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, will focus on one agenda item–the proposal by the NC Department of Transportation Division 1 to submit a South Ferry Dock relocation proposal to the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The meeting will be held in the Ocracoke Community Center and will be open [...] Local News |  Full Article

Larry Ogden, president of the Hatteras Island Community Emergency Response Team (HI-CERT), has been awarded the prestigious North Carolina Governor’s Medallion Award for Volunteer Service. Ogden was honored for receiving the award—which is North Carolina’s highest volunteer honor—during the 2021 Governor’s Medallion Award ceremony that was held virtually from Raleigh at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, [...] Local News |  Full Article

With peak travel season on the Outer Banks fast approaching, N.C. Department of Transportation crews will be changing speed limit signs along sections of N.C. Highway 12 today and Friday in several parts of Currituck and Dare counties. On Saturday, the speed limits in areas through the tri-villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo, as well [...] Local News |  Full Article

The 6th annual 2021 Cape Hatteras Sandlot Tournament was played on May 8, 2021, and the event featured beautiful weather, plenty of baseball action, and tributes to two beloved members of the Hatteras Island community. The tournament began by honoring Tom Murphy’s memory, with his wife Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy throwing out the first pitch for [...] Local News |  Full Article

After a bout of the winds has scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rocket from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore on three straight nights, it was clouds that blocked a Tuesday launch. The next attempt begins at 8:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. The first three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper-level [...] Local News |  Full Article

Dare County announced 5 new positive COVID-19 test results on Tuesday, May 11, bringing the total number of cases in the county since the pandemic began to 3,190. With Tuesday’s new cases, the current number of active cases in the county is now 19. The 5 additional cases consist of 2 residents and 3 non-residents, [...] Local News |  Full Article

Per multiple reports, N.C. Highway 12 has reopened in both directions following a traffic accident north of Rodanthe on Tuesday, May 11. Traffic on northern Hatteras Island was at a standstill for the majority of Tuesday afternoon, due to a dump truck that had overturned near the Jug Handle Bridge on Pea Island, blocking both [...] Local News |  Full Article

UPDATE: N.C. Highway 12 has reopened in both directions as of 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday. An accident on N.C. Highway 12 north of Rodanthe has resulted in a standstill in traffic in both directions on Tuesday afternoon, May 11. A dump truck overturned near the Jug Handle Bridge early Tuesday afternoon, blocking both lanes of [...] Local News |  Full Article

Dare County released the following update for Tuesday, May 11, which provides details on recent Coronavirus cases, vaccine data, and more COVID-19 information. Dare County COVID-19 Case Update Last week there were 31 new positive cases reported in Dare County. The total COVID-19 positive case count for Dare County is 3,185, of which there are [...] Local News |  Full Article

Representatives from the National Park Service (NPS) hosted two meetings over the past week to start the ball rolling on a future renovation and/or relocation project for the Ocracoke Light Station. At Monday’s virtual meeting, National Parks of Eastern North Carolina Superintendent David Hallac provided an overview of the iconic site’s history, as well as [...] Local News |  Full Article

A bout of the winds have again scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rockets from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore. The next attempt begins at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. Like the last three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe [...] Local News |  Full Article

Gas stations throughout Hatteras Island were inundated with a flood of traffic on Tuesday morning as folks filled up their vehicles in response to the cyberattack on the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which carries more than 100 million gallons of fuel from Texas to New Jersey every day. Representatives of the Colonial Pipeline said on Monday [...] Local News |  Full Article

Severe weather is possible for Monday afternoon and evening, which includes damaging wind gusts, hail, and frequent lightning, per a Monday morning update from the National Weather Service (NWS) Newport / Morehead City office. The best chance for severe weather along the Outer Banks will be late afternoon until the early evening, from roughly 5:00 [...] Local News |  Full Article

Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperation (CHEC) will require a planned power outage in Avon and the Tri-villages on Tuesday, May 11, in order to perform maintenance work to the transmission system The power outage scheduled for Tuesday is as follows: Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, and Avon will experience a 5-minute outage at 7:30 a.m. There will also be a brief outage [...] Local News |  Full Article