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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Text and photos by Peter Vankevich Over the past 10 years, Ocracoke has been a wintering ground for three fascinating bird species. In 2018 a ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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