Roberta, sister Nancy and their mother Geraldine at the Manteo airport in 1961. Photo by James E. Nordheim By Roberta Nordheim-WallacePhotos by James E. Nordheim My family visited the Outer Banks ...

Fish-fry fundraisers help those in need The ‘staff’ at the cook shack behind the Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department serve up plates for the fund raiser for John Simpson. From left are Alex ...

If you are looking to experience the charms of life on a sandbar, look no further than this fabulous, family-friendly RV ...

Ocracoke Island will celebrate colonial life in the 1700s with a living history encampment and the Battle of Ocracoke during Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2, on ...

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Nearly 25,000 ballots have been cast in the three Outer Banks counties, matching the pace set four ...

Take the time to be a traveler, not a tourist on Ocracoke Island.Make the journey more than just checking off those souvenir photos. It’s about letting the destination you’re in seep into your ...

The N.C. Department of Transportation’s popular Hatteras-Ocracoke route will be making the annual switch to its regular ...

On Tuesday last the propeller Fanny ran down to Ocracoke Inlet with a company of ... and that two thousand of them had landed on Roanoke Island, with the intention of destroying the Light-house ...

The first Ocracoke lighthouse was built on Shell Island and was destroyed by lightning in 1818. The oldest operating lighthouse in North Carolina, the present Ocracoke Lighthouse sits on a ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 12 to 14 mph (19.3 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 63 °F (17.2 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds from N to NNE at 14 to ...

Roanoke Island and Hatteras Island. You'll also find Ocracoke Island farther south, but it's not as accessible and less visited. Every area has sparkling stretches of beaches and affords plenty of ...