The public has opportunity to comment on several proposed rules to permits, franchises and shellfish leases at a hearing later this month and in writing through September.

The Silver Lake Motel & Inn and former Jolly Roger Pub & Marina in Ocracoke have new owners after the property was auctioned earlier this week for $4.1 million.

Advocates of the Brunswick County town's proposal to strengthen and expand flood zone building rules say officials must ensure they are not putting property owners, emergency personnel in danger.

Jody Hopkins and his son Oden of Grimesland established state records for a channel scabbardfish and a spinycheek scorpion fish while fishing 33 miles off Ocracoke.

Belville's seven-term mayor who served the town for more than 15 years died Tuesday night, the town announced Wednesday.

These tasty, gold-spotted speedsters are the target of many an angler along the Carolina coast, and there's a method suited to everyone's fishing style.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson, during a tour of Pollocksville Tuesday, said he is confident that courts will remove a block ...

A collaborative project of North Carolina Sea Grant and the NC Oyster Trail, the exhibit featuring the work of Raleigh-based ...

The nonprofit conservation group is challenging the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging it acted illegally in deciding to continue classifying the critically endangered population of red wolves as ...