An effort to protect threatened wading bird colonies and their imperiled habitat on Battery and Shellbed islands, Audubon, Sandbar Oyster Co. and the North Carolina Coastal Federation have teamed up ...

The North Carolina General Assembly established the new rules through a 2023 law and charged the Division of Marine Fisheries ...

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

In its largest giveaway to date, Cape Fear Alliance for Trees will have more than 1,400 native trees available for the taking beginning Friday afternoon.

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

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

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

The state Secretaries' Science Advisory Board, which assists and makes recommendations to the N.C. departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services regarding contaminants, is ...

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 ...

Petitioners were granted permission to build a sandbag wall to protect their oceanfront properties at The Pointe in Ocean Isle Beach, with a stipulation that the public area of the beach remain ...

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.

N.C. Department of Transportation officials will take comments and answer questions at an open house before a public hearing scheduled for Monday on the proposed Independence Boulevard extension ...