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A Carteret County leader who has been on the forefront of economic development efforts in the county for nearly a decade has announced his plans to retire.

Offshore drilling spilled into the national vocabulary in 2008, as political candidates and voters searched for concrete solutions to gas prices that hovered at $4 a gallon earlier this year.

RICHMOND, Va. a ' Dominion Power says more than 155,000 customers in Virginia and parts of North Carolina are still without electricity in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ida.

Relentless rain swept along much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to Long Island.

Updated at 6:16 p.m. Remnants of Hurricane Ida brought Eastern North Carolina heavy rains, winds and a flood watch that remains in effect through late Thursday night.

As a youngster, Marty Lawrence and his friends paid little attention to the nearby Delaware River.

A power pole broke outside Havelock Thursday morning, disconnecting a main Progress Energy transmission line and putting 18,000 people in Craven and Carteret counties in the dark.

Located less than a quarter of a mile from the central business section of Kinston, the Mitchelltown Historic District today represents what was the beginnings of middle class residential development for the area.

The League of Women Voters and WSOC-TV have resurrected an Oct. 27 event with Democrat Anthony Foxx and Republican John Lassiter.

Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 11:42 a.m. Miami Forecasters say Tropical Storm Henri is weakening in the Atlantic Ocean and is likely to be short-lived. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning that the storm was about 375 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands.

MIAMI Forecasters say Tropical Storm Grace has formed far out in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean with winds at 65 mph .

The Blizzard of '93 held the title of seminal weather event in WNC for 11 years before the Floods of 2004 knocked it from that perch.

North Carolina needs to know its share of oil and natural gas revenues and whether wind farms could coexist with drilling before it weighs in on an offshore leasing proposal, Gov.

Hurricane Hugo taught us many lessons, but we remain vulnerable to catastrophic storms.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday he's in no hurry to make a decision on whether to allow offshore drilling in federal waters off Alaska and other states, a remark that disappointed advocates of offshore drilling for oil and gas.

Ray Cannon stands in front of Center Baptist Church in southern Sampson County, which was underwater following Hurricane Floyd.

Submitted by WWAY on 14 September 2009 - 10:41am. No other weather event in North Carolina history caused as much damage as Hurricane Floyd.

Observers kept an eye on the eastern portion of a North Carolina river after approximately 6 million fish turned up dead.

The Norfolk Southern locomotive, pulling three freight cars, motored into downtown Kinston on Thursday.

Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 1:02 a.m. There's a remarkable Web video making the rounds lately that shows newly hatched loggerhead turtles as they make their way out of a sand-covered nest at Carolina Beach and into the Atlantic Ocean.