An estimated 800 to 1,000 people participated in the “No Kings” protest in Nags Head on Saturday.

North Carolina automobile owners will see an average 5% auto insurance increase starting Oct. 1 following the settlement North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey negotiated with the North Carolina Rate Bureau.

While it was not an agenda item, the Dare County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted Monday to allocate no more than $20,000 toward a baseball nonprofit organization for a regional youth tournament hosted in Dare County this summer.

The Dare County Board of Commissioners at its Monday meeting stressed that no county taxpayer funding will be used in the upcoming construction of the Dare Early College in Manteo, addressing community concerns that board members indicated were voiced recently.

The Town of Nags Head is constructing lifeguard housing on property it owns to address one of the persistent challenges across the Outer Banks: Securing housing for seasonal employees. Lifeguards share their thoughts.

The Ocracoke Express passenger ferry that runs between Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island begins its seventh summer season next Tuesday, May 13.

The consultant for a company that proposed a zoning text amendment to remove the 1988 multifamily density cap for a roughly 7-mile-long area of Frisco and Buxton said the plan is to wait, even though the Dare County Board of Commissioners’ tabling of the amendment Monday for 90 days does not prevent the applicant or anyone else from building in the “Zone of Influence” area in question, according to county staff.

Local governments across the Outer Banks are pushing back on what they view as North Carolina General Assembly’s continuing movement toward consolidating more power at the state level. County governments also have resolutions of opposition to proposed ferry tolls on next week's agendas.

A new Dare County license plate agency is expected to open around mid-August in Kitty Hawk, as an operator contract was awarded in February, according to a North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles spokesperson.

The replacement of the 65-year-old Lindsay C. Warren Bridge, locally known as the Alligator River Bridge, is ongoing despite nearly a quarter of the project’s funding currently being frozen by the federal government, an NCDOT spokesperson confirmed.

Nearly 300 voters from Currituck, Dare and Hyde counties appear on the list of over 65,000 votes that Jefferson Griffin, the 2024 Republican candidate for a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat 6, continues to challenge in court.

The Outer Banks will lose over $227,000 from the cancellations of two USDA programs that purchased from local farmers and seafood producers.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein appointed Jennifer “Jenny” Wells of Kitty Hawk to the district court judge seat vacated by Edgar L. Barnes.

The owner of the SSA office building in Elizabeth City said he received a letter on Tuesday revoking the building lease cancellation.

The Dare Community Housing Task Force is eyeing federal land in Dare County for a potential future housing project.

A Wilmington U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office and the two SSA offices closest to the Outer Banks are among DOGE lease terminations.

The four Republican legislators representing the Outer Banks in Raleigh sponsored 106 bills in less than two weeks. Residents react.

One of the two applicants to operate Dare County license plate agency calls for Currituck Chamber of Commerce investigation into the other.

OBX homeowners will see insurance increases the next two Junes following a statewide settlement. Auto insurers in NC now seek an increase.

The first homes in a much-contested cluster home development project in Wanchese will likely be ready this summer.