Outer Banks

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it threatens to whip up wild waves and tropical-force winds. Forecasters say the monster storm will turn away from the eastern U.S. and won’t make landfall. But they predict it will churn up dangerous rip currents along North Carolina’s barrier islands and could swamp roads with waves of up to 15 feet.

A federal appeals court upheld on Thursday the decision by state and U.S. transportation officials to build a toll bridge connecting North Carolina's…

Two beach houses have fallen into the waves along North Carolina's coast, U.S. National Park Service officials said in a statement Tuesday. The unoccupied…

A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise, and hundreds were feared trapped by high water.

$35 billion. That's what it will cost to defend against rising seas in North Carolina, according to the Center For Climate Integrity. The chosen tactic is…

Local and state government officials have issued mandatory evacuations for coastal residents ahead of Hurricane Florence. But that doesn't mean everyone…

A federal judge has accepted a settlement that would allow those who lost power for days last summer on two North Carolina islands to divvy up more than…

Maria regained strength and became a hurricane again Wednesday, pushing water over both sides of North Carolina's Outer Banks and taking its time to…

Thousands of visitors abandoned their vacation plans and left North Carolina's Outer Banks ahead of Hurricane Maria as it moved northward in the Atlantic.…

Businesses on Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands are welcoming tourists back after a week-long power outage. Ocracoke resident Daphne Bennick was on her way to…