State Rep. John Torbett (R-Gaston) will bring his House Select Committee on Strategic Transportation Planning and Long Term Funding Solutions,to Ocracoke Aug. 27. After visiting N.C. Ferry Division operations in Mann’s Harbor […]
To catch up on Ocracoke news, click here MOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Artificial Reef Program will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, in the […]
Editor’s note: The short session of the N.C. General Assembly ended recently without passing House Bill 361, described below. So, according to news sources, that bill is dead for now, but it […]
Editor’s note: Senate Bill 325 that has cleared the N.C. General Assembly House and Senate has been forwarded to Gov. Roy Cooper. He is expected to veto it and the veto will […]
RALEIGH–Gov. Roy Cooper today announced the appointment of Jaki Shelton Green, poet, teacher and community arts advocate, as North Carolina’s ninth poet laureate. Green, of Mebane, is the first African-American and the […]
For Ocracoke news, click here The Affordable Care Act has survived several repeal attempts by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, and while it is still the law of the land, there […]
For Ocracoke news, click here RALEIGH–Gov. Roy Cooper and the Department of Environmental Quality submitted formal comments yesterday to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to convey North Carolina’s opposition to oil and […]
For Ocracoke news, click here ATLANTIC BEACH–Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that the state Dept. of Environmental Quality will submit formal comments opposing offshore seismic testing for oil drilling on North […]
This is reprinted courtesy of the Coastal Review Online For Ocracoke news, click here. June 8, 2017 By Jennifer Allen WASHINGTON – The National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS, proposed Monday to […]
For Ocracoke news, click here Coastal recreational fishermen hooked fewer fish in 2016 than they did in 2015, the state Division of Marine Fisheries has announced. Anglers brought an estimated 8.5 million […]
