Hyde County’s 2025-2026 budget does not include an increase in the property tax rate but it includes the levying of fees for disposing of household and business trash. The budget, as discussed in ...

Philip Howard has presented many Porch Talks over the years. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer Ocracoke Observer staff The Ocracoke Preservation Society’s Porch Talks have become a ...

By Connie Leinbach After completing dredging in the Big Foot Slough channel just outside Ocracoke, the long-route ferries across the Pamlico Sound began their summer schedule today. Four boats are ...

Ocrafolk Festival. This year’s festival is June 6 to 8 at the Berkley Manor grounds. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Monday, June 2Hyde County Board of Commissioners, 6 pm.

An offshore drilling platform. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By SamWalkerOBXNews.com A public comment period runs through June 15 on a plan announced last month by the Trump Administration to ...

A green sea turtle digging her nest on the beach of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Photo: NPS/Will Thompson Already, six loggerhead sea turtles have nested on Ocracoke Island. Many more will be ...

Military attaches attend the British Cemetery Ceremony May 9 on Ocracoke. From left are Capt. Timothy List, U.S.C.G. Sector Commander; Commander Richard Lane, Canadian Forces Naval attaché; ...

Michele Reynolds Leigh Michele Williams Reynolds, age 62, of Ocracoke, and formerly of Raleigh, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22, in the LiveWell Brassfield Memory Care Facility. She ...

When the threat of rip currents is high, lifeguards place yellow-and-red caution flags on the beach. Feel free to talk to the lifeguards at the Day Use Area and swim there, too. Photo: C. Leinbach ...

Elizabeth O’Meara with her Canvasback by Mark Justice. Text and photo by Connie Leinbach Elizabeth O’Meara of Clemmons had never been to a decoy festival and won the first prize of the raffle – a ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Connie Leinbach In the next weeks the N.C. Legislature will hammer out a two-year budget that may or may not include a toll ...