Currituck County News

Click a thumbnail to view the full-size image. Buy Pilot photos here. Loading... Close Gallery Currituck County is cracking down on oversize signs, clutter, junk cars and decrepit buildings to make for a more scenic drive.

Unemployment increased in Cabarrus and Rowan counties in May, according to official state statistics released last week, and the rate is expected to increase again when Philip Morris USA stops production at its Concord plant this month, laying off 1,000 workers.

The crash caused traffic problems for much of the day near Highway 34 in Currituck County.

Yvonne Stone and her grandson Seth Francis pick up some food on their way out the door at the Currituck County Post Office, Wednesday.

Two tractor-trailers collided on NC Highway 168 in Currituck County earlier today, overturning one of the rigs and sending both drivers to the hospital with minor injuries.

A traffic accident earlier today has closed N.C. Highway 168 in the Sligo area of Currituck County, a press release from Currituck County states.

Schools chief one of state's youngest 2009-06-30 15:19:10.0 CURRITUCK - No one seems as surprised that Meghan Doyle is Currituck County Schools' new school superintendent as Meghan Doyle.

The body of a woman who disappeared while swimming in a North Carolina coastal sound has been found by a commercial fisherman.

Currituck's volunteer fire departments are hoping to get the county to agree to multi-year fire service agreements when members of the county's fire advisory board meet with county commissioners Tuesday night.

The body of a woman missing in the Currituck Sound since late Saturday was found around 11 a.m. Monday morning by a commercial fisherman, said Sandy Casey, chief deputy for the Currituck County Sheriff's Department.

A fire of undetermined origin destroyed a mobile home in the 8400 block of Caratoke Highway in Powells Point, officials said.

Authorities have suspended the search for a North Carolina woman who went missing while she was swimming Saturday night in the Currituck Sound, the Coast Guard said Sunday.

The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Board of Education has been asked to consider lowering graduation requirements for HL Trigg Community School students in danger of dropping out of high school.

Eighty-two of North Carolina's 100 counties experienced an unemployment rate increase in May, according to statistics released today by the state's Employment Security Commission.

Loading... Video: Installing the turbines. Steve Earley The Virginian-Pilot 1 of 3 George Bates works on the second of two wind turbines installed at his Chesapeake home last week to generate electricity.

Captain Ricky DeVennish and Lieutenant Emily McAlpin instruct a group of Corolla Ocean Rescue guards in pre-season training.

Mike Warren got a big surprise at Currituck County Middle School last week as he was emceeing the end of the year meeting for the staff of Currituck County Schools - The Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

The horse injured in the March 28 accident. A 21-year-old woman has been charged with failing to report injuring a wild horse following an accident which claimed one of the animals in the small herd occupying North Carolina's Currituck Outer Banks.

A Chesapeake woman has been arrested in the hit-and-run death of a wild horse in Corolla, according to WVEC.

Two years of lobbying state and federal lawmakers and researching the Navy's proposal to erect an outlying land field in northeastern North Carolina appear to be finally paying off, officials said Thursday.