Text and photos by Michael J. Meyer Anyone who has visited Ocracoke Island knows how special it is: from stunning sunsets to magnificent views of the Milky Way on a moonless night after a cold ...

View over 30 storm tracks and history in eastern North Carolina. The National Weather Service will begin its seventh year of conducting Hurricane Community Forums in Pine Knoll Shores this Tuesday ...

Mariah Temple, right, receives her scholarship from Greg Honeycutt. Submitted story by Emmy Benton, Outer Banks Community Foundation. Photos courtesy of the Outer Banks Community Foundation Greg ...

Reading Program for Kids and Families will kick off on Saturday, June 14, with a Foam ‘n’ Fun party in front of the library at 225 Back Road. Wear a bathing suit and ...

Ocrafolk Festival. This year’s festival is June 6 to 8 at the Berkley Manor grounds. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer To see the monthly listing of meetings, music and events, ...

This concept and those depicted below are in the South Dock feasibility study. Note in Concept 4, above, the dotted line along the water. That line marks how much shoreline has been lost in the ...

By Connie Leinbach Hyde County’s 2025-2026 budget does not include an increase in the property tax rate but it includes the levying of fees for disposing of household and business trash. The ...

Philip Howard has presented many Porch Talks over the years. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer Ocracoke Observer staff The Ocracoke Preservation Society’s Porch Talks have become a ...

By Connie Leinbach After completing dredging in the Big Foot Slough channel just outside Ocracoke, the long-route ferries across the Pamlico Sound began their summer schedule today. Four boats are ...

Ocrafolk Festival. This year’s festival is June 6 to 8 at the Berkley Manor grounds. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Monday, June 2Hyde County Board of Commissioners, 6 pm.

An offshore drilling platform. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By SamWalkerOBXNews.com A public comment period runs through June 15 on a plan announced last month by the Trump Administration to ...