NPS urges visitors to sign up for rip current forecast text...
MANTEO, N.C. — Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) is urging its visitors to sign up for Dare County Emergency Management’s rip current forecast text...
Islanders voice their concerns at OCBA meeting
Editor's note: The OCBA meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, has been canceled. Information about contacting state legislators about the ferry system will be...
Six staffers gone from NPS Outer Banks Group; further cuts remain...
By Joy Crist, Island Free Press
Following the February dismissal of approximately 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) employees nationwide, coupled with a February 26 memo from...
Ocracoke Alive to offer cultural smorgasbord for community
Ocracoke Alive is marshaling the many creative people on the island and offering a series of free cultural activities to the community from Monday,...
Ferry Division to adopt temporary phone only reservations for long routes
Reservation system upgrade expected to be complete in February
MANNS HARBOR – The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division will adopt a temporary “phone only” reservation system...
Applications being accepted for FEMA Home Elevation Grant
As a result of Tropical Storm Helene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has opened a grant opportunity for Hyde County homeowners to elevate...
Cape Hatteras National Seashore chief receives conservation award
From our news services
The National Parks Conservation Association has awarded Dave Hallac, superintendent of the Outer Banks Group of National Parks, one of this...
One ‘O’cocker’ way to resilience
Text and photos by Connie Leinbach
When many Ocracoke residents chose to raise their houses after the historic flooding five years ago from Hurricane Dorian,...
Hyde County hires new EMS director, hires more staff, purchases Ocracoke...
By Connie Leinbach
Hyde County has hired Brook Cox as the new director of Emergency Medical Services.
Cox, from Mebane, Alamance County, began work Aug. 27.
With...
Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree slated for Nov 1 & 2
Ocracoke Island will celebrate colonial life in the 1700s with a living history encampment and the Battle of Ocracoke during Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree Friday,...