Photo courtesy of the Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation The Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s Annual 5K race will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct.12, at Sun Realty in Avon. Registration ...

Tom Payne. Photo courtesy of the family Thomas O. Payne, age 75, passed away on September 21, 2024, in Ocracoke.  Born Sept. 23, 1949, he was a son of Parke and Martha Payne. Tom grew up in ...

Hot Springs in Madison County. Photo from North Carolina’s Weather Authority Facebook page RALEIGH: Gov. Roy Cooper is encouraging donations to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund to help ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Gail Covington, a family nurse practitioner on Ocracoke, will retire at the end of December. She made the decision after learning that her ...

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Observer staff report Help is on its way, but mother nature is holding Ocracoke up a little longer. The repeated regional storms since early December have ...

From our news services Swells from another distant hurricane--Nigel--will reach eastern North Carolina beaches late this week into the weekend, bringing the possibility of overwash, ...

Hurricane Helene, now Tropical Storm Helene, is battering Western North Carolina with record rain levels. The Outer Banks and nearby mainland are under a tornado warning until 6 pm. High wind gusts ...

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