There will be refuge tours, educational activities, family fun, food, equipment on display and a chance to meet refuge staff during the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge celebration.
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Officials urge caution ahead of possible flooding, high winds
Forecasters expect a low-pressure system will impact eastern North Carolina Thursday and Friday, “bringing the potential for multiple hazards including: strong winds, coastal impacts, heavy rain, and a tornado or two.”
Coastal Federation hires help to retrieve lost fishing gear
The nonprofit organization pays commercial fishermen and women to collect crab pots and other gear in January, when internal coastal waters are closed to all crab, eel, fish and shrimp pots north and east of the Highway 58 bridge over Bogue Sound to Emerald Isle.
Witch hazel: Useful native species adds pop of winter color
If you’ve ever been in the woods this time of year and noticed a sweet fragrance but couldn’t pinpoint it, you’re not having olfactory hallucinations — this aromatic wonder grows right here in North Carolina.
Topsail Island towns team to eradicate harmful beach vitex
Topsail Island towns are banding together in an attempt to reduce the presence of the invasive plant that chokes out native vegetation on oceanfront dunes.
Groups set Cape Fear paddle for western NC Helene relief
A day of paddling on the Cape Fear River is being organized to support Hurricane Helene relief efforts in the western part of the state.
Online tool maps NC’s blue economy businesses, resources
The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has launched an interactive map of key blue economy businesses, startups, assets and resources in the state as the university’s Blue Economy Index saw in October a slight decrease in performance.
Capturing moments: Make the most of memorable catches
A few simple tips can turn that image of your once-in-a-lifetime experience on the water from stinker to a potential treasured family heirloom.
Structural damage forces closure of Beaufort Lab building
A building that housed employees with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service Lab in Beaufort has closed after engineers determined the structure’s foundation is damaged.
Sunrise skiff
A fishing skiff anchored at the North River Bridge in Otway, in Carteret County, is nearly silhouetted at dawn recently. Photo: Doug Waters
Whales that use echolocation mistake plastic for prey: study
A Duke University doctoral candidate in a new study found that deep-diving whales that rely on sound to forage for food are mistaking plastic for prey.
Coast receives millions for transportation improvements
Numerous municipalities in coastal counties have receive the first of two transportation funding installments to repair locally maintained streets, road and bridges.
PBS NC to air interviews on US Life-Saving Service history
Two examples of U.S. Life-Saving Service history on the North Carolina coast, the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum and the Chicamacomico Historic Site, are set to be showcased on North Carolina public television this month.
Ocracoke a beacon of maritime history, quiet attraction
Accessible only by water or small aircraft, the barrier island and its villagers see the population swell each summer as visitors flock to its history, restaurants, nature and beaches.
Buxton folk relieved at Corps action, ask why not sooner?
Corps of Engineers officials told Hatteras Island residents this week that work is ongoing and a formal advisory board on cleanup at the petroleum-contaminated National Park Service beach could help information flow, but some here wonder, why did it take so long?
Commission sets vote on Tar-Pamlico wastewater hearing
The Environmental Management Commission, when it meets this month, is to consider approving a public notice and hearing on proposed revisions to wastewater-discharge rules put in place to reduce fish kills, harmful algal blooms and other longstanding water quality problems in the Pamlico estuary.
