The three teams competing in the famed Worrell 1000 catamaran sailboat race successfully landed in Frisco on Thursday afternoon, arriving at ORV Ramp 49 after a roughly 75-mile trek that began Thursday morning in Atlantic Beach, N.C. The race will heat up again on Friday morning, and the public is welcome to head to the [...] Local News |  Full Article

Ocracoke will once again head to the beach and join more than 80 other locations from 12 states, as well as Canada, Australia, Belize and New Zealand, for the Hands Across America show of solidarity to protect the coasts and ocean. Florida has the most locations with 23 as of Sunday and more locations nationally [...] Local News |  Full Article

With the Rodanthe Harbor emergency ferry channel dangerously shoaled two weeks from the start of hurricane season, members of the Dare County Waterways Commission on Monday expressed alarm that there are no funds or immediate plans to clear the sand from the water route that would be needed if access to N.C. Highway 12 was [...] Local News |  Full Article

A brief but strong thunderstorm on Monday afternoon resulted in a lightning strike at a home in Salvo, although there was no fire reported, and everyone within the home was unharmed, per the Chicamacomico Banks Water Rescue. The Chicamacomico Banks Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of the lightning strike at Tarheel Court at [...] Local News |  Full Article

With the peak of the summer travel season on the horizon, N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) crews are planning to change the seasonal speed limits and corresponding signs along N.C. Highway 12 on Wednesday, May 15. The speed limits on Hatteras Island in the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon and Frisco drop from 45 [...] Local News |  Full Article

UPDATE: The “Martha’s Vineyard Express” was spotted at the Hatteras village ferry docks on Monday afternoon before it departed at around 3 p.m. for one of the first of many test runs to Ocracoke Island. Per Tim Hass, NCDOT Public Relations Officer, the passenger ferry will make a number of test trips along the Hatteras-Ocracoke route over [...] Local News |  Full Article

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted five people after their 21-foot boat lost electrical power 22-miles east of Hatteras Inlet on Saturday, May 11.   Watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s 5th District in Portsmouth, Virginia, received an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon alert of a vessel possibly in distress 22-miles off the coast of Hatteras Inlet.   [...] Local News |  Full Article

A cluster of Great White sharks off the coast of the Outer Banks this week piqued the interest of shark trackers at OCEARCH, which tagged all of the visiting sharks on an expedition to Nova Scotia in the fall of 2018. OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization, is the orchestrator of Global Shark Tracker – an interactive [...] Local News |  Full Article

Even as the Trump administration has put its East Coast offshore oil plans on hold, North Carolina’s environmental officials are rallying the forces to prepare a united front against the proposal. “We have to remain vigilant in opposition to drilling off our coast,” Michael Regan, secretary of the state Department of Environmental Quality, said Wednesday [...] Local News |  Full Article

The N.C. Division of Coastal Management is accepting public comment on a request for review of a federal consistency submission from a fifth company proposing seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean related to oil and gas resource development off the North Carolina coast. WesternGeco is proposing to conduct a Marine Geophysical Survey via 2D seismic [...] Local News |  Full Article

At approximately 3:53 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet received a report that there was a capsized vessel on the outside of the Oregon Inlet Bar with three people onboard who had climbed on top of the overturned hull. U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet’s 24-foot shallow water response boat was [...] Local News |  Full Article

Dare County has received notice of the availability of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds (HMGP) for the elevation of homes in unincorporated Dare County. The HMGP program provides funding to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program. If you are a [...] Local News |  Full Article

Dare County took the first step in approving the structure of a loan that will use $15 million of state money to build a dredge aimed at keeping Oregon and Hatteras inlets clear. The Oregon Inlet Task Force, at its meeting Wednesday, endorsed the terms of the loan funded by a provision in the state [...] Local News |  Full Article

A big crowd of island residents and visitors headed to the Frisco Bath House beach on Saturday morning to watch as six sea turtles were released after being rehabilitated for months by the by the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island’s Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation Center, or STAR Center. The released sea turtles included [...] Local News |  Full Article

Six sea turtles will be going home this weekend after being rehabilitated by the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island’s Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation Center, or STAR Center. This loggerhead treated at the STAR Center following an entanglement is to be released on Saturday. Photo: North Carolina Aquariums The four loggerhead sea turtles and [...] Local News |  Full Article