The Endowment, established from New Hanover County's sell of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health in 2020, has awarded a $500,000 grant to UNCW's Center for Marine Science to help ...

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is holding a public hearing Monday on two proposed shellfish leases in Carteret County waters.

Petitioners were granted permission to build a sandbag wall to protect their oceanfront properties at The Pointe in Ocean ...

The Coastal Resources Commission during its regular meeting last week voted on proposed language that changes the "Description" of Jockey's Ridge to the "Designation" in an attempt to satisfy the most ...

Former state Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, one of four individuals widely credited for securing passage of the state ...

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is now managing the Pasquotank River Preserve, which neighbors the state agency's North River Game Land in Camden County.

Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers officials said Monday that proposed changes to the existing ...

The company's annual payments to the county over the project’s 30-year lifespan are expected to total $50 million, and the ...

A dredging and sand placement project that began last week in Oak Island will continue through to January and is one of three projects that will result in the beachfront getting an injection of more ...

The draft program proposes up to 34 potential offshore lease sales across 21 of 27 existing outer continental shelf planning ...

A recent visit to Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge offered little in the way of migratory waterfowl viewing for which it's known but did yield this glimpse of a whitetail doe through the trees.

Aerial surveyors spotted four critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off Ocracoke Island, and operators of vessels of all sizes are asked to travel no faster than 10 knots through the area.