The Buxton FUDS Restoration Advisory Board, during the first of what will be quarterly meetings, expressed appreciation for the work done so far at the site and hopes that remaining contamination will be addressed.

Eleven people were selected to the Restoration Advisory Board for the Buxton Naval Facility FUDS. The first meeting is Thursday, April 10.

Reports of sick raccoons around the Outer Banks began last summer. Current complaints of the deadly canine distemper virus vary by agency.

Dare County released an informational video about the oceanfront house collapses in the Village of Rodanthe in recent years.

A dead adult male dwarf sperm whale washed up on the beach in Carova in a state of “advanced decomposition” on Friday, Jan. 24.

A dead female juvenile humpback whale washed up near Bennett Street Beach Access in Kitty Hawk on Friday, Dec. 27.

An aerial survey team documented an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing gear about 60 miles off the Outer Banks.

A $25 million Federal Highway Administration grant will fund wildlife crossings to help save "critically endangered" red wolves.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Oct. 2 began removing petroleum-contaminated soils from the former Buxton Naval Facility site.

One of Dare County’s five suspended dredging permits was reinstated last week, almost exactly a month after the permits were suspended.

Dare County residents on Tuesday afternoon spoke in favor of reinstating protections for Jockey's Ridge State Park.

Dare County and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leaders met in Wilmington to discuss reinstating the county’s suspended dredging permits.

A third unoccupied house in less than a four-month span collapsed in Rodanthe. More houses are threatened.

Debbie Swick Swick has been pushing for balloon release bans since January 2023, she said. Recently, she has seen a string of successes.

Waves crash on infrastructure remaining from the former military facility at the beach by Buxton Beach Access, as seen on Feb. 14, 2024. (Photo by Corinne Saunders) By Corinne Saunders BUXTON — Following several days of strong northeast winds and erosion, Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Thursday morning expanded the area of closure for a stretch of beach near the Buxton Beach Access.