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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...

An offshore drilling platform. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By SamWalkerOBXNews.com A public comment period runs through June 15 on a plan announced last month by...

Already, six loggerhead sea turtles have nested on Ocracoke Island. Many more will be arriving. In 2024, there were 101 nests. The incubation period...

Text and photo by Connie Leinbach Ocracoke was an unwilling witness to the horror of naval warfare in the North Atlantic as German U-boats attacked...

Leigh Michele Williams Reynolds, age 62, of Ocracoke, and formerly of Raleigh, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22, in the LiveWell Brassfield Memory...

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...

Text and photo by Connie Leinbach Elizabeth O’Meara of Clemmons had never been to a decoy festival and won the first prize of the raffle...

Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day):1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Raygun Ruby, 7 pm Tuesday, May 27Ocracoke Oyster Company: Bryan Mayer, 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 28Ocracoke Oyster Company: Bryan...

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 Connie Leinbach An Ocracoke institution and destination since 1979, Howard’s Pub has been sold to Colin Wiseman of Nags Head. The sale was completed in...