A recently published study finds that plants on land are increasingly absorbing more carbon, while Earth’s oceans are taking ...

N.C.12 at the north end of Ocracoke Island is shown while it remained closed early Monday. Photo: NCDOT Transportation along ...

A male luna moth, or Actias luna, finds a perch in the branches of a Japanese maple near Russell Creek in Beaufort. The ...

Fruit ciders, vinegars, relishes and pickled vegetables -- these time-tested methods for preserving foods share similarities, ...

State transportation crews were clearing N.C. Highway 12 and rebuilding dunes in the wake of Hurricane Erin’s pass offshore, ...

The next installment in historian David Cecelski's “Working Lives: Photographs from Eastern North Carolina, 1937 to 1947″ ...

National Park Service officials announced Friday that Cape Lookout National Seashore facilities would be reopening this ...

Registration is open for the North Carolina Coastal Federation's annual Pelican Awards Ceremony and Taste of the Coast ...

Southern flounder are unusually sensitive to climate change because water temperatures during their juvenile stage determines ...

The state Marine Fisheries Commission has adopted an amendment that equally splits landings of southern flounder between commercial and recreational fishers beginning this year.

National Weather Service forecasters warned Wednesday that, although the forecast path of Hurricane Erin is well offshore, threats of rip currents, damaging beach erosion, major coastal flooding and ...

Brunswick County Public Utilities officials believe about 1,100 gallons of untreated wastewater discharged into the Calabash River after one of the utilities' pump stations experienced a power failure ...