Ferry News

By Connie Leinbach After completing dredging in the Big Foot Slough channel just outside Ocracoke, the long-route ferries across the Pamlico Sound began their summer...

By Connie Leinbach In the next weeks the N.C. Legislature will hammer out a two-year budget that may or may not include a toll on...

By Sam Walker For a list of NC Legislative transportation committee members, see this story. Parts of the North Carolina House of Representatives' budget proposal...

Editor's note: The dredge Merritt is working in Big Foot Slough as of May 23 and the summer Pamlico Sound schedule is expected to...

The N.C. Ferry Division’s Pamlico Sound routes between Swan Quarter, Cedar Island and Ocracoke will temporarily remain on their spring schedules until completion of an upcoming dredging project in the Bigfoot Slough ferry channel near Ocracoke’s Silver Lake Harbor.

Observer staff report Hyde County commissioners on Monday night added their names to a resolution signed by seven other counties opposing the enactment of tolls...

From our news services The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold two public meetings in May to discuss an upcoming study on the future of...

By Connie Leinbach The N.C. Ferry Division on Thursday returned the M/V Silver Lake to service on Ocracoke’s long routes across the Pamlico Sound and...

By Connie Leinbach The NC Ferry Division routes across the Pamlico Sound have been temporarily reduced to the winter schedule, or two runs per day...

The N.C. Ferry Division will hold a career fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday (Jan. 31) in the Ocracoke Community Center. “With three...