Year: 2020

In its fifth round of COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants, the Outer Banks Community Foundation has awarded more than $65,000 in emergency funding to local nonprofits. Read More >>

Courtesy N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island What is that blob in the ocean and does it sting? Why am I so itchy after swimming? Why Read More >>

[CoastalReview.org photo] An advisory against swimming was posted today at the sound-side Colington Harbour swimming beach, where state officials found bacteria levels in the water Read More >>

Silver Lake Ferry Terminal in Ocracoke village on Sept. 6, 2019. [NCDOT image] In order to ease travel to and from Ocracoke Island this upcoming Read More >>

[NCDOT video] The National Weather Service says the tornado that killed two and injured 14 early Tuesday in Bertie County was an EF-3 twister with Read More >>

Photo of mural at Dowdy Park. [Courtesy George Wood] Dare County Arts Council and the Town of Nags Head have partnered on a special mural Read More >>

Ralph Northam By Bruce Potter/InsideNoVa.com Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam praised the Northern Virginia region’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, while he slapped more restrictions Read More >>

Gov. Roy Cooper delivers a briefing on North Carolina’s coronavirus pandemic response Monday, Jun. 15, 2020. [photo courtesy NCDPS] Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced Read More >>

Illustration created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). By Dare County Department of Health and Human Services Read More >>

[photo courtesy Peyton Savage Alexander] A section of an empty oceanfront lot caught on fire Tuesday afternoon, but was quickly contained by Kill Devil Hills Read More >>