Kitty Hawk News

James H. Matusko, 55, passed away Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, while commercial fishing on the beach in Southern Shores.

Nearly 200 local court officials and well-wishers gathered at the Dare County Justice Center to start Robert Trivette's district judgeship during a blue moon on Thursday.

While the world's attention was tuned to the recent global climate conference in Copenhagen , in an old airplane hangar on a small Swiss airfield, a group of visionaries, dreamers and engineers was busily assembling a vehicle that is their solution to global climate change and the future of commercial aviation.

As a local health literacy coalition is poised to begin an educational campaign on the importance of understanding health information, local doctors are supportive, saying the issue is a problem they struggle with regularly.

Maybe you didna t grow up watching Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the Cannonball Run, but most everybody knows the premise.

When you think of Seattle as the birthplace of the Boeing Company, it might not come as a huge surprise that the Central Library has a Special Collection of historical materials on aviation.

Coastal emergency management officials are keeping a close watch on the system moving into Eastern Carolina.

Last Edit: 5 hours 31 min ago On Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful controlled powered flight.

Original Wright Brothers 1903 Aeroplane in first flight Orville Wright at controls.

Loading... 1 of 2 In one of the bright spots for commercial development in the area, a new Food Lion opened on the Bypass in Nags Head this year.

Driving down Hwy. 12, the beach road here, sand and debris were heaped in tall piles along both shoulders.

I'm a pretty good facsimile, but I'm not an actual Southerner. No, I was raised here by northern parents, packed into the station wagon at age 5 and settled in Virginia where I set my roots.

The proposed park The park will also include the other top requests: a skate park, tennis courts and basketball courts.

On June 4, 1896, the editor of the Binghamton, New York, Republican offered what most of his readers must have regarded as a rather startling prediction.

Can a book that starts with a timeline keep your interest and go the distance? 'Conquering the Skies,' the story of the Wright Brothers historic May 1908 flights in Kitty Hawk, N.C., soars like their revolutionary aircraft.

Pilot Jeff Skiles will speak at the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, which commemorates the 106th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Skiles started with US Airways in 1986.

Loading... 1 of 10 NC Department of Transportation workers wade across the flooded NC 12 near mile marker 1 on Saturday, Nov.

Robert P. Trivette was appointed to the District Court bench to finish the unexpired term of Judge J.Carlton "J.C." Cole who was appointed to the Superior Court bench in September.

Humans have always had a desire to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci and his studies and drawings of flight to Orville and Wilbur Wright's flying machine to Amelia Earhart and her famous disappearance, the world has always craved learning about those daring individuals who have risked life and limb to soar.

After getting with the engineer today, we WILL carry the CHS-First Flight game live from Kitty Hawk after all on the World Wide Web.