Community members concerned with an expected rise in food insecurity amid an ongoing federal government shutdown and in the face of the first-ever anticipated federal pause on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have been seeking and creating ways to help their neighbors.

State agencies have issued two permits for the proposed Mid-Currituck Bridge project.

The Kill Devil Hills Police Department on Tuesday arrested two local 17-year-olds in connection with the death of Zane Thomas Hughes, 19, from a fatal shooting at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills in July.

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

All three area-specific mandatory evacuations for Hurricane Erin were lifted over the weekend. Some hazards, especially in Buxton, remain.

Sections of Hatteras Island began experiencing overwash from still-distant Hurricane Erin on Tuesday, and all of the Outer Banks is under a tropical storm warning and a storm surge warning.

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.

The July 4 week, typically considered the busiest week of the summer season on the Outer Banks, saw increased public safety agency work as anticipated, but some agencies reported fewer incidents than occurred during last year’s Independence Day week.

Over $1 million in Opportunity Scholarship funding was distributed to 195 Outer Banks students attending private schools during the recently concluded 2024-25 school year, state records show.

A Moyock teen died at the scene in an early-morning collision Thursday in Currituck County, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

Outer Banks Insider compiled a list of all the lifeguarded beaches on the Outer Banks from north to south, with links to each ocean rescue agency as well as beach safety tips.

Beloved Haven, a Currituck County-based nonprofit, set up a mobile outreach van Tuesday in Elizabeth City in the first of many planned regional stops to serve women who are survivors of or who are vulnerable to human trafficking.

A Moyock woman was arrested Friday on three misdemeanor charges: Trespassing/impeding a school bus, communicating threats and disorderly conduct. The arrest warrant for Samantha Spoor, 35, did not mention her alleged racial slur.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Pellini of Grandy, a CRNA, now faces four felony second-degree forcible rape charges and other new charges, court records show.

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.