Ocean outfall pipes on the Outer Banks have been found to have high concentrations of bacterial contamination during and after storm events.

A man with a Canadian address was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor “first-degree trespass enter/remain” charge for his alleged unlawful entry of Manteo Elementary School in Manteo. The same 37-year-old was arrested and charged last month with felony first-degree burglary in Kitty Hawk.

A First Flight High School junior recently won the 4A women’s cross country state championship.

The Manteo High School principal of almost two decades is retiring.

An aquatics center project ranked as the community’s top desired amenity, but it was not recommended to be prioritized due to its land and financial demands, according to a firm hired to complete a recreation needs assessment for Dare County.

The Manteo Elementary School principal, who is a former district principal of the year, will exchange leadership roles with one of First Flight High School’s assistant principals. The transfers are effective next Monday, Oct. 6, according to the district superintendent.

From grants and land trusts to accessory dwelling units and legislative changes, three Outer Banks leaders spoke about challenges and opportunities they see in addressing the area’s housing crisis during a virtual public gathering that the Raleigh-based North Carolina Housing Table hosted.

A Manteo couple jumped out of an airplane together 108 times on Monday, unofficially besting the 14-year-standing Guinness World Record of 105 tandem skydives in one day.

Both Manteo High School’s junior varsity and varsity soccer teams reigned victorious over First Flight High School at the latter’s home field in Kill Devil Hills in the inaugural battle between the Dare County rivals for the Cobia Cup on Monday.

A Manteo couple will attempt to break a skydiving world record at their business location on Monday, Sept. 22, by jumping out of an airplane together over 105 times.

The Dare County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in providing information related to an incident last Monday, Aug. 25, in Manteo, that resulted in serious injuries to two people.

State officials created the Currituck-Knotts Island ferry route in 1962 for the safety and convenience of school kids in an isolated community.

The only full-day, year-round licensed child care facility on Hatteras Island is closing in October, to the dismay of residents and child care advocates.

The Saving Lives Task Force has been at the forefront of addressing substance use and the opioid crisis in Dare County for the past 11 years. Its co-chair since the beginning, who recently retired, and its new co-chair discuss the task force's successes and the changes they've seen.

The 19-year-old man who was airlifted to a hospital the evening of Tuesday, June 24, following “a severe spinal cord injury” he suffered while skimboarding in the Atlantic Ocean near Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills is making progress on a long recovery journey, according to his family.

The intertwining of local and national history was shared during the fifth annual Juneteenth celebration at the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum in Manteo on Thursday evening.

“In the Spirit of Wingina 2: Our Women...Our Words...Our Water” took place in Manteo and in Nags Head on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31.

From June 5-8, the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Jockey’s Ridge State Park serves up an equal mix of nostalgia and never-seen-before elements, from live concerts to a shoreline planting project, to the Outer Banks’ first large-scale drone show.

The Secotan Alliance works to introduce people to Chief Wingina’s and other tribes’ collective role in our past, while also sharing the Indigenous “Earth ethic” of living sustainably and respecting the environment and all living creatures in a modern context.

For our seventh episode of “Down the Road,” we meet Braxton Hughes, a local who will soon begin his second six-month season playing professional American football in Brazil.