Hatteras News

This 2011 file photo shows a flooded road on Hatteras Island, N.C., after Hurricane Irene swept through the area the previous day cutting the roadway in five locations.

The number of trips between Ocracoke and Cedar Island will increase from four to six a day in each direction, according to a news release from the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Chef Nikki Spears, best known locally as the namesake behind Nikki's Fresh Gourmet , is back in Wilmington and preparing to open her third eatery.

The HMS Bounty is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy on Oct.

The mother of a woman who died during the sinking of a ship during Superstorm Sandy has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the vessel.

The NCDOT Ferry Division's Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry run switches to its summer schedule on Tuesday, May 7, going to 30 trips each way.

Quite a few visitors to Ocracoke, and even many residents of the island, are unaware of the role Ocracoke played in the War of 1812.

It's probably too big to fail too many people have come to rely on it. Going back in time, to an island without easy access to the mainland, is unacceptable to most.

On the lower Outer Banks, a national park and wildlife refuge own a little more than half of Dare County's 85 miles of ocean shoreline.

Highway 12 down North Carolina's Outer Banks isn't much to look at: 110 miles of asphalt with sand or buildings pressed up against it.

Just after low tide ocean water reaches up to the damaged section of N.C. 12 just north of the Mirlo Beach area of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island on Monday, Nov.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week wrapped up a four-month dredging project that was supposed to clean out the clogged-up navigation channel across Hatteras Inlet, but shifting sands have kept the state Ferry Division from restoring regular service on the four-mile route that was closed in January.

More than 1,500 fans of Cortez have kept the fishing village in the running in the "ultimate fishing town" contest sponsored by worldfishingnetwork.com. Cortez, on April 29, about a week after the voting began, was on the leaderboard with more than 1,500 votes.

Ray McAllister sent along a copy of his latest book, "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks" . You'll remember Ray.

The National Weather Service is warning of rip currents and shore breaks along the northern end of the North Carolina coast.

The four subregions of the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem, extends from Cape Hatteras, N.C. to the Gulf of Maine.

Dating back to the Civil War, when official data began to be collected, the waters along the Northeast coast of the United States have never been so warm as they were in 2012, according to federal officials.

Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center .

By Scott Blake A federal program to provide seed money for small businesses through investment fund partners has gotten off to a slow start.

After the showers and below average temperatures we've had the past few days, I'm sure many of us are ready to put the month of April in the rear view mirror.