Norfolk’s community-oriented approach to dealing with water management and flood control has earned the city a national award.

Suffolk is introducing automated traffic-enforcement cameras in an effort to improve safety on roads and around schools.

The Ocracoke passenger-only ferry returns Tuesday to shuttle people, but not their cars, between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands on the Outer Banks.

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.

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

Just in time for Mother’s Day, rangers at Cape Hatteras National Seashore found the first sea turtle nest of the season Friday morning on Ocracoke Island.

The convenience store/gas station chain plans to open the store at 1900 N. Croatan Highway in Kill Devil Hills in the first quarter of 2024, beginning a five-year expansion into North Carolina that will include 35 stores east of Interstate 95.

In addition to the birth of five red wolf pups, two breeding pairs of red wolves were introduced at Alligator River wildlife refuge as part of the ongoing recovery program for the endangered species.

A rite of summer on the Outer Banks has arrived with the lowering of speed limits along sections of N.C. 12.