People cause 99% of wildfires, and half of those are due to carelessness, according to the North Carolina Forest Service, all while climate change is making conditions worse.

The measure of economic activities in oceans and waterways with an emphasis on environmental impact beat the performance of ...

Archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer of the First Colony Foundation says a review of historic maps indicates that the Croatan ...

Pages Creek watershed residents are invited to hear updates on the Pages Creek Watershed Protection Plan later this month.

The town’s federal coastal storm risk management project – more than 20 years in the making – will put a total of 21.8 million cubic yards of sand on the beach over the course of a half-century.

National Estuaries Week, Sept. 21-28, is a celebration of economically and ecologically vital and sensitive ecosystems, and ...

The current Saturday and Sunday commercial harvest weekend closure for striped mullet will change to a Saturday through ...

The federal agency that identifies offshore wind energy areas is in the early stages of siting another possible commercial lease sale for the East Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held an ...

The sun sets over Albemarle Sound in Edenton earlier this month near the N.C. Highway 32 bridge in this photo submitted by Tom Brennan of Edenton. “For the past couple of years I’ve been flying my ...

DUCK — For a few days this summer, three split-hull barges chugged south from Norfolk, Virginia, to deposit 6,500 cubic yards of olivine sand mined in Norway at a nearshore area of this small ...

As N.C. Highway 32 winds through Washington County, it passes through Skinnersville, an unincorporated township with a population of just over 700. There isn’t much here; a few homes along the south ...