The Huette Center was very active in the 80s and 90s, with classes and lectures on horticulture, herb sales and more. Now, a Ghent couple is looking to restore this community hub and, with enough elbow grease, put it on a path to long-term sustainability.

Recent shark bites in Florida and Hawaii and a suspected case in New Jersey have piqued interest in the age-old summer question of whether it’s safe to go in the water. Scientists and researchers who study sharks said the overwhelming answer to that question is yes, it is safe.

When people think of the Outer Banks, warm sunshine, cool ocean waves and soft sand come to mind. But there is so much more to the story than a thin strip of beach along the Atlantic Ocean.

A bald eagle, ospreys, a spotted sandpiper and geese goslings were spotted in Hampton Roads.

Two birders in Raleigh, alarmed at the famous 3 Billion Birds report — which documented the plummeting bird population in the U.S. and Canada — set out to help. What was needed, they said, was a book on what might be done to reverse the losses before more species became extinct or the continent’s entire bird population crashed beyond recovery.

Against the backdrop of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, hundreds turned out Tuesday morning to cheer six rehabilitated sea turtles as they returned to their ocean homes. It was the Outer Banks first public turtle release since the coronavirus pandemic.

Six rehabilitated sea turtles were released back into the ocean on May 16, 2023 in Buxton, North Carolina. The sea turtles recovered at the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation Center at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island.

A decomposed whale washed up in Kitty Hawk on Monday, the third whale death on the Outer Banks in the past five months.