Manteo News

The reason One state official said he can only guess that budget writers were grabbing money from wherever it could be found to balance the budget.

All 27 N.C. State Historic Sites will be closed Friday, July 3, for the state holiday but will be open Saturday, July 4. Several state historic sites will also be presenting special Independence Day programs over the holiday weekend including Historic Halifax, the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington, Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo and ...

Fish catch at risk Some scientists say bluefin tuna stocks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean are being overfished, depleting stocks in the Western Atlantic.

Maybe North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue should consider joining South Carolina Gov.

The Outer Banks is set to become the first community on the East Coast to banish those wispy plastic bags.

MANTEO The National Park Service is recruiting volunteers for a program of beach watchers to help prevent crime and vandalism along North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The article "Renewable energy potential" provided interesting and useful information.

The outer banks are a beautiful place to visit especially in the summer. There are miles of beaches that are breathtaking and there is always something that you can do there.

A A A A A A A A A A A Wachovia, a Wells Fargo company, along with the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, today announced the final standings in the Wachovia Cup competitions for the 2008-2009 sports season.

When the goal is to build an innovative facility to study coastal processes, ideally it should be located on water.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service will hold several meetings this summer to talk about potentially changing fishing for bluefin tuna and swordfish in the Atlantic Ocean.

North Carolina's Outer Banks surely would be a source of pride and joy even if a young David Stick hadn't wound up living there and becoming fascinated with his surroundings.

The New Bern-based agency that will be replacing Albemarle Mental Health Center as the manager of area mental health services starting July 1 also plans to replace the agency's name.

The construction of a bacteria-catching filter at an ocean outfall here is on hold, but a study of eight Outer Banks outfalls is overflowing with information on the water traveling through the storm drains.

Several sea creatures are back where they belong thanks to caring hands in Eastern Carolina.

A movie about North Carolina's breweries is opening this week. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that seven people took along video cameras when they visited 27 breweries in nine days last year.

Permit me to disabuse you of the notion that all newspapers are failing. Sure, we all know that many major metro dailies were already in a dismal state prior to the economy tanking last fall, due largely to investor greed and corporate owners taking on too much debt.

Are you longing to get away from the hustle and bustle of our busted, dog-eat-dog economy? You aren't the only one.

MANTEO, N.C. Summer beach driving restrictions near villages along the North Carolina Outer Banks are going into effect.

Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that domestic visitors to and within North Carolina spent a record $16.9 billion in 2008, an increase of 2.1 percent from 2007 and higher than the previous record of $16.5 billion, set in 2007.