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 ...

A fire caused by a propane tank explosion destroyed a home on the northern part of Roanoke Island in Manteo, a Dare County ...

As film lovers enjoy the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film about a frightful shark, the N.C. Aquarium on ...

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 ...

Here are 13 facts about the origins and demise of Roanoke Island’s hapless colony—and several theories about where its inhabitants may have ended up. 1.

It's a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina's Roanoke Island? (See "America's Lost Colony.". The settlers, who arrived in 1587 ...

Roanoke Island, home to Fort Raleigh, was a place of community for thousands of freedom seekers during the Civil War. When Union forces occupied the island in 1862, it became a safe haven for ...

Staff at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island said "Nursey," a 22-year-old nurse shark was nearing his natural lifespan. Nursey joined the aquarium in 2008.

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