The Mother Vine produces scuppernong grapes, the state's official fruit since 2001, and dates back to the early days of the ...

A person was airlifted to Norfolk General Hospital with injuries sustained from a house explosion and ensuing fire in a ...

Roanoke Island is a little like a cross between Lewes, Del., and the "olde country" at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, only without the roller coasters. You have a quaint little village full of shops ...

One person was injured and a home on the northern part of Roanoke Island is a total loss Friday after a two-alarm fire caused by a propane tank explosion, a Dare County official said. Dare ...

ROANOKE ISLAND: FOR A DAY NOT ON THE BEACH. June 1, 2003. The kids are sunburned and whining -- and so are you. You're tired of sand in the house and bathing suits that won't dry.

HISTORIC ROANOKE ISLAND; Site of the First English Settlement in America, and Birthplace of Virginia Dare. A Choice Spot Where Sportsmen and Fishermen Are Welcomed and Where the Supply of Game ...

They’ve shown up on Roanoke Island and at Cape Creek as well. In all the team has found 275 pounds (125 kilograms) of Indian pottery covering several centuries of settlement, Swindell says.

The newest season of the FX series is based off Roanoke Island, the lost colony of North Carolina. The British settlers went missing between 1587 and 1590. Not even their bodies were discovered.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, fou… ...