Park Service Sees Record Visits in January
More visitors flocked to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Wright Brothers National Memorial during January than in any other January on record.
More visitors flocked to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Wright Brothers National Memorial during January than in any other January on record.
Jessica Whitehead, former N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency chief resilience officer, has been named the Joan P. Brock Endowed executive director of the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at Old Dominion University.
Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington and Smithsonian Affiliations will present a monthlong Women’s History Virtual Scholar Talk Series every Wednesday through the March.
There will be lane closures during the week March 1-18 while contractors conduct a routine condition inspection of the Marc Basnight Bridge.
Crews may begin work as early as late March and are expected to be complete by October on work to extend the life of two bridges in Pender and Duplin counties.
The Marc Basnight Bridge over Oregon Inlet is the first bridge in the state that the N.C. Department of Transportation has inspected using a drone.
The state Board of Transportation has approved three coastal airports to receive state and federal grants for safety and airfield improvement projects.
Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington is hosting “H2O Today,” a Smithsonian exhibit that looks at challenges related to global water sources.
A stakeholder group presented Wednesday to the state Climate Change Interagency Council a number of electricity reform recommendations for achieving clean energy goals.
The representative 16th-century sailing ship Elizabeth II departed Roanoke Island Festival Park Tuesday for its first maintenance haul out since 2017.
Former Elizabeth City mayor Henry Richard “Rick” Gardner died Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at 94.
Nearly 100 drinking water and wastewater projects in North Carolina will receive $282 million in loans and grants.