Currituck News

Local volunteers are ready to collect simple shoebox gifts personally packed by children, families, and individuals here in Elizabeth City and surrounding areas.

North Carolina business leaders are cheering three of their heroes. The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame inducts a Raleigh restaurant entrepreneur, a Winston-Salem banker and a former Raleigh mayor during a celebration Thursday in Charlotte.

After its last public library closed in 1957, the ribbon was finally cut and the doors opened on a brand new Moyock Public Library on Wednesday afternoon.

We haven't hit the top of seasonal flu season yet, and one part of our area is out of flu vaccines.

Moyock restaurants or residents that cause sanitary sewer blockage or overflows because of fat, oil and grease, or FOG, deposits will now pay a hefty fine of up to $5,000, thanks to a new ordinance passed by the Currituck County Board of Commissioners at their meeting last Monday.

Area school districts pass out hundreds of report cards every year, but on Thursday, the tables were turned.

Officials from the 10 counties in the Albemarle Mental Health Center area plan to meet in the next few months to decide the future of mental health service management in the region.

While the negative public reaction to an option for the Mid-Currituck Bridge project wasn't unexpected, a state official says it's not true the option represents a "deal" to appease environmentalists' concerns about the bridge project.

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:29 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:29 p.m. If you stay in a hotel in Wilmington, part of your room tax helps pay for the Wilmington Convention Center, which is under construction downtown.

Chris Marks is a famous Kansas City pit master. His barbecue has won numerous grand champion awards at cook-offs all over the country.

North Carolina's top education official praised the Currituck County Schools Monday for having one of the top 10 graduation rates in the state.

The Currituck County Alcohol Beverage Control Commission has abruptly halted its controversial plan to relocate its Moyock ABC store into a larger storefront, apparently in response to a decision by the N.C. ABC Commission to drop its support for the move.

Staff Photos by Brett A. ClarkPatricia Youngblood, executive director of Albemarle Hopeline, and her husband Jack sing "Amazing Grace" with others attending Albemarle Hopeline's 18th annual Candlelight Vigil at Museum of the Albemarle, Thursday night.

About 40 Currituck residents turned out Monday evening to hear engineers from the North Carolina Turnpike Authority discuss a new plan for the proposed Mid-Currituck Bridge.

Loading... From left, Debbie Rorer stretches along with Irina Dolgaleva and Pat Keilty in an exercise class at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.

Juanita Melko, a nurse who works at the health department in Pasquotank County, watched as fellow nurse Nancy Nash approached with a syringe containing the H1N1 vaccine.

The Elizabeth City Downtown Market is entering the final stretch with only October left for you to saunter down to Mariners' Wharf Park on a Saturday morning for fresh, local produce.

A wild horse on North Carolina's Outer Banks had to be euthanized after it was injured in a collision with a deputy's cruiser.

The county manager and the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners are among the nine members of a new panel that will oversee development not only at Camden's proposed green park but the entire county as well.

Unemployment rates in August generally decreased in the Albemarle and across most of the state.