An effort to protect threatened wading bird colonies and their imperiled habitat on Battery and Shellbed islands, Audubon, Sandbar Oyster Co. and the North Carolina Coastal Federation have teamed up ...

In its largest giveaway to date, Cape Fear Alliance for Trees will have more than 1,400 native trees available for the taking beginning Friday afternoon.

The state Secretaries' Science Advisory Board, which assists and makes recommendations to the N.C. departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services regarding contaminants, is ...

The North Carolina General Assembly established the new rules through a 2023 law and charged the Division of Marine Fisheries with enforcing the requirements that went into effect Monday.

Invasive species pose a serious challenge for ecosystems that have not evolved alongside them, and such is the case with North Carolina's crystal skipper and the nonnative horses allowed to roam the ...

N.C. Department of Transportation officials will take comments and answer questions at an open house before a public hearing scheduled for Monday on the proposed Independence Boulevard extension ...

The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has a full schedule of holiday events taking place across the state, several of which in eastern North Carolina.

The Endowment, established from New Hanover County's sell of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health in 2020, has awarded a $500,000 grant to UNCW's Center for Marine Science to help ...

The Indian Woods historical marker at the intersection of St. Francis Road and U.S. Highway 17 in Bertie County is easily missed while cruising at 55 or 60 miles an hour. Located at the edge of a ...

A Venus flytrap shows off its perhaps little-appreciated blooms, which are often overlooked, as compared with the other, better-known, insect-trapping attributes of this carnivorous plant that's ...