Dare and Hyde counties each issued a state of emergency declaration Sunday evening and mandatory evacuation orders for Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island as potentially dangerous conditions from Hurricane Erin are expected to begin Tuesday.

Three people across the Outer Banks contracted Vibrio infections from open wound exposures to sound water in July, including two people who were hospitalized, according to area health officials.

Last-minute changes made to legislation in the state Senate in June would have banned all shrimp trawling in the state’s inshore waters and within a half-mile of the shoreline for four years. After a hastily organized lobbying campaign from shrimpers and their allies, the legislature put the trawling ban on ice—for now.

Outer Banks beachgoers from South Nags Head to Corolla reported sections of the Atlantic Ocean appearing neon greenish to yellow-hued over a span of several days in late June.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson confirmed to Outer Banks Insider that all five of Dare County’s formerly suspended dredging permits have been reinstated.

Hatteras Plawkers clean up trash from the roadside on Hatteras Island once a week from April through November.

A dead juvenile female humpback whale that washed up in Corolla was discovered to have broken bones suggesting the whale suffered “blunt force trauma,” a necropsy performed Friday found.

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.