Could wave energy be tapped as a renewable, acceptable, backup energy source for Outer Banks residents? That's what National ...

The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission will hold a special meeting at 10 a.m. Monday by web conference to hear a ...

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality will accept comments through February 2025 on a proposed rule revision that would adopt federal limits of certain PFAS in drinking water provided by public ...

Shellfish farmers are petitioning the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission to change the punishment for what farmers call clerical errors and minor permit violations.

Division of Marine Fisheries officials have opened the public comment period on draft amendments to the management plans for ...

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has chosen preferred management measures for speckled trout fisheries that do not ...

Second of two parts. Read Part 1. By the time Chase Luker pointed the headlights of his king cab truck down a narrow country road that returned to Columbia, nighttime blanketed rural Tyrrell County. A ...

Within 48 hours, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore superintendent’s prediction came true. Another unoccupied, imperiled home on Rodanthe’s ocean shore toppled into the Atlantic Ocean. Save 50% on ...

The Alexandria Dawn, shown being sunk last week, now lies on AR-305, off Cape Lookout. Photo: NCDMF MOREHEAD CITY – The state Artificial Reef Program sank a 55-foot trawler at the artificial reef site ...

In the fall of 1927, G. Albert Lyon, millionaire businessman, gifted inventor, and renowned sportsman was restless and looking for a challenge. It could be almost anything: a new gadget to tinker with ...

The North Carolina Coastal Federation will accept applications from commercial fishermen and women until Dec. 15 for the upcoming effort to collect lost and abandoned gear in the state’s sounds. The ...

The Environmental Management Commission has advanced proposed changes that would codify an existing, long-term agreement with a coalition of wastewater dischargers in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin. The ...