Beaufort News

Freight cars from Radio Island rolled over the Newport River to Morehead City Port on Thursday for the first time since a ship knocked out the railway trestle on June 5. N.C. Department of Transportation inspectors certified the trestle on Wednesday after repairs totaling about $600,000 were done to make it usable and safe again, said Brad ...

The final New Bern ArtWalk for 2009 will be Nov. 13, featuring downtown businesses that will extend their Friday night hours during the event.

Two incumbents and a former board member will return to office in the Town of Beaufort.

The public service work of a Carteret County resident has expanded to a new role.

Saturday is the last day for voters to use One-Stop voting to cast an early ballot for the municipal elections slated for Tuesday.

The 21st annual Autumn with Topsail festival took place on October 17 and 18. The weather broke just early enough to make the arts and crafts display one of the most successful events in a very long time.

Students hoping to split geodes and glimpse marine animals at this year's Earth Jam may will to wait at least another year.

About the size of a walnut, the flawless, colorless diamond sits on a ring designed by Manhattan jeweler David Webb .

An anchor from the shipwreck that's thought to be from Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, is so unstable that divers in North Carolina hope to retrieve it now rather than waiting until next year.

When discussing the greatest ever heavyweights everyone mentions Muhammed Ali. A name that doesn't always get mentioned is his greatest rival Joe Frazier, a man who helped make Ali the icon he is.

Music fans will have plenty of variety in a three-county area this weekend and next.

Emily King has been praying for closure, she said, but her son's body at the bottom of a channel wasn't the closure she had hoped for.

North Carolina authorities plan to use the serial number on a metal plate to identify a body in a sports utility vehicle found in waters off Beaufort.

A 1998 Jeep Cherokee that has been considered the missing link in the 2005 disappearance of a Carteret County man was recovered from waters off Beaufort Tuesday and may prove to have the final answers in the case.

Ever since he spent barefoot and carefree summers at his grandmother's cottage along the York River outside his native Richmond, Jack Greer dreamed of sailing off into the Atlantic.

The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse has put a spotlight on more than lighthouse history.

Carteret County law enforcement officers and volunteers will be at all five Food Lion stores in Carteret County Saturday collecting expired and unneeded medications.

The Intracoastal Waterway is often described as a sheltered inside passage, but there are portions that can get really nasty when the weather kicks up.

RALEIGH a ' Anyone who has ever stayed in an upper-story condo or hotel room in Atlantic Beach, Morehead City or Beaufort knows about the competing views.

BEAUFORT Despite the toll the economy has taken on the coastal housing market, Triangle developer Richard Stockett is betting big money that people still want to own a second home at the coast or at least part of a second home.