Hyde County will host a community outreach session about the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. This free workshop does not obligate you in any way to participate. Come learn how to access federal ...

Editor’s note: Rudy Austin died April 17, 2025, and we are reposting this story about him originally published Dec, 31, 2023. We will post obituary information when we receive it. We send our ...

History buffs might know that pigeons were used to carry military messages during World Wars I and II. Pigeons might be associated with evolution theorist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), who studied how ...

Claudia Neal makes arepas during an Ocracoke Alive cultural event. Photo by Jeanne Brook “April is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote in his epic poem “The Waste Land.” But not everyone ...

Another attempt by state lawmakers to add tolls to the currently free ferry routes along North Carolina’s coast is underway at the General Assembly. The North Carolina Senate is in the process of ...

1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Island Trivia, 6 pm. Ocracoke Waterways Commission, 6:30 pm. Community Center. Livestreamed on Hyde County Public Information Facebook page.

The N.C. Ferry Division on Thursday returned the M/V Silver Lake to service on Ocracoke’s long routes across the Pamlico Sound and the three-boat (spring) schedule is back in effect as of today (April ...

Movement is medicine, says Doug Schletz, one of four staffers of the Wounded Warrior Project guiding 10 military veterans who recently completed a bike ride on Ocracoke. The injured vets were getting ...

Editor’s note: The OCBA meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, has been canceled. Information about contacting state legislators about the ferry system will be available at the next meeting at 6 p.m ...

All it took was a Christmas gift from his wife to spark a lasting passion in the late Mark Justice, this year’s featured carver at the Ocracoke Waterfowl Festival. Produced by the Ocracoke Island ...

The National Weather Service offices that serve the coastal Carolinas (NWS Charleston SC, NWS Wilmington NC, NWS Newport/Morehead City, and NWS Wakefield) are joining to host the first ever Carolinas ...

We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful island, the last island of the Outer Banks, N.C. Ocracoke is the southernmost island of the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ocracoke, in Hyde County, is very ...