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Two Yellow-bellied Sliders basking in the sun at Sandy Run Park in Kitty Hawk.

This being World Turtle Day according to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, we thought we would share a picture of two yellow-bellied sliders sunning themselves on a log at Sandy Run Park in Kitty Hawk

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Approximately 500 visitors helped Ocracoke Lighthouse celebrate its 200th anniversary.

The weather cooperated on Thursday, May 18 as the National Park Service and 500 visitors celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Ocracoke Lighthouse. The celebration included a birthday cake, a descendent of Keeper Captain Joseph M. Burrus the last lighthouse keeper, and stories about what...

Proposed National Park Service multi-use path at Hatteras Lighthouse.

It won’t happen tomorrow, but it looks at though a multi-use path will be part of the Hatteras Lighthouse experience fairly soon. The 1.6-mile-long, 10-12-foot-wide paved multi-use pathway will have two segments—a main one leading to the beach and the lighthouse and another that...

Tamra Harrison Kirschnick “Red Sea" was this year's Mollie Fearing overall winner.

The Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show is one of the art highlights of the Outer Banks. An eclectic blend of media of every sort, oils, acrylics, watercolors, mixed media and more, 2023 is the 26th annual show and what was on display gives a...

A shovelful of dirt and a pile of sand and the groundbreaking for the KDH Wawa is official.

The newest convenience store to come to the Outer Banks just took a major step today toward opening its doors. Of course the actual opening of the Kill Devil Hills Wawa is still a good seven or eight months in the future, but with...

Passing a Hatteras/Ocracoke Ferry with commercial vehicles on board.

It’s a twist on an old idea, but it may be that the Hatteras Ocracoke Ferry will start lightering goods from commercial trucks into smaller vehicles. That, at least, is one idea that is begin floated to alleviate some of the wait to get...

James Hill performing on his ukulele at St. Andrews by the Sea in Nags Head.

Ukulele and virtuoso are not words that appear in the same sentence very often. Hardly at all, to be accurate, but there is no other way to describe the performance we just witnessed by James Hill at St. Andrews by the Sea Episcopal Church...

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