A Wake County Superior Court decision upholds that N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has the authority to set limits of 1,4-dioxane discharges from public wastewater utilities.

The plan for unincorporated areas of the county builds on the resilience strategy that was completed for Hatteras Island in ...

Popular attractions including Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wrights Brother ...

Communities near Marine Corps bases in Jacksonville and Havelock, as well as the auxiliary landing field in Bogue on N.C. 24, ...

The Division of Coastal Management has opened for public comment a proposal to use no more than $50,000 to cover closing ...

Learn about Black history on the Outer Banks during a special event Feb. 28 at the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum on Roanoke ...

Officials in Ocean Isle Beach seek federal approval to have up to 70,000 cubic yards of sand placed east of the Brunswick County town's terminal groin where erosion gnaws at the shoreline in front of ...

The doctoral candidate at Duke University is employing new whale-tagging technology to reveal highly detailed information about pilot whale hunting habits, answering old questions about the specifics ...

The carcass of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted about 25 miles offshore of Avon on Jan. 27.

Dr. David Burney and his wife Lida follow their love for mullet from Down East Carteret County to Sardinia, "the very ...

Supporters call the changes modernization; critics warn they could weaken safeguards in the Toxic Substances Control Act, the ...

The weekend storm that covered North Carolina with more than a foot of snow in some places caused four unoccupied Buxton ...