Ocracoke News

This year the OcraFolk Music & Storytelling Festival has embarked on a creative new fundraising project.

There's more than beach to see on the North Carolina coast. Check out these one-of-a-kind attractions for a surfside side trip that's amazing, fun for the family - and inexpensive.

Jamie Tunnell Carter, Public Information Officer for Ocracoke, says it appears rough seas capsized the 23' Grady White boat.

The next time you are in downtown Belhaven or anywhere nearby, you might want to take a detour to feast on the legendary beef sandwich offered at Farm Boys Restaurant.

"CBS This Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca visited North Carolina recently to film a report on homogenizing American accents.

To the 61 percent of North Carolina voters who voted to amend their constitution to make sure that my partner and our son are not protected equally under the laws of your state, we will see you next week.

Ocracoke Island might be isolated, laid-back, relaxed, and a bit quirky, but it is no cultural backwater.

The N.C. Ferry Division will hold a christening ceremony Friday to dedicate a new ferry to serve eastern North Carolina.

There are extra ferries running this weekend from Ocracoke to Swan Quarter because of shoaling problems with the ferry to Hatteras.

Elizabeth Williams Parsons was born and raised on Ocracoke Island. Some of our readers will remember her late husband, Roy Parsons, who played regularly in the Wednesday evening Opry shows at Deepwater Theater.

Hurricane Irene is still making itself felt along the Outer Banks, where persistent shoaling is clogging the narrow Hatteras Inlet channel and disrupting service on the state's busiest ferry route.

Pick a nice time of day and the Hammock Hills Nature Trail on Ocracoke Island offers a memorable view of the Pamlico Sound that separates the Cape Hattteras National Seashore from "mainland" North Carolina.

Walk the half-mile Flytrap Trail at Carolina Beach State Park, just south of Wilmington, to spot the rare, meat-eating Venus flytrap, only found naturally within a 75-mile radius of Wilmington.

From The Story of Ocracoke Island , compiled by Calvin J. O'Neal, Alice K. Rondthaler, and Anita Fletcher, 1976: "When they built the first road at Ocracoke [during World War II], someone on the mainland joked it would be 'mostly a sidewalk for pedestrians!' He was right about the pedestrians, but he failed to see how quickly the pedestrians would ... (more)

For many years there has been speculation about the provenance of the Outer Banks ponies.