The sandbag area as of 7 p.m. Aug. 21. Photo by Ben Knight From our news services The Hyde County Board of Commissioners have lifted the evacuation order for Ocracoke Island for essential ...

Pea Island breech. Photo from NC DOT By Peter Vankevich Even though Erin is moving far away from the Eastern Seaboard, impacts continue today for the Outer Banks especially between Oregon Inlet ...

The parking lot north of the pony pens. Photo by Byron Atkinson NCDOT reported late this afternoon that NC HIghway12 remains closed south of the Basnight Bridge to Hatteras Village and on the ...

N.C. 12 north of the pony pens is closed while NCDOT crews work on the damaged areas. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Connie Leinbach Hurricane Erin is on its way away from North Carolina, ...

Heavy surf on Tuesday afternoon Aug. 20 around high tide is already lapping at the dunes north of the pony pens on Ocracoke, ...

Locals check out the raging surf at the pony pen beach. Photo by Jeffrey Dippold Observer staff report Coastal flooding and overwash began ahead of this evening’s high tide at 6 p.m. for ...

From our news services The National Weather Service out of Newport/Morehead City this afternoon, Aug. 18, issued a storm surge watch for the Outer Banks in advance of Hurricane Erin making its way up ...

OCRACOKE – As Hurricane Erin approaches the North Carolina coast, the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division is assisting with the evacuation of all visitors and residents from Ocracoke ...

MANTEO, N.C. – Consistent with Dare and Hyde counties issuance of a State of Emergency and mandatory evacuations of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) will be ...

The Living History of the Brogue” (UNC Press 2025), a new book by Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram and islander Candy Gaskill, continues ...

The Hyde County Board of Commissioners enacted a State of Emergency for Ocracoke Island effective at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, due to the anticipated flooding impacts from Hurricane Erin and ...