-
The Transformational Scholarship provides $40,000 toward tuition at NC State's College of Education to students from eastern North Carolina who intend to return to that region to teach.
-
Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Newport say coastal flooding, high surf, beach erosion, and strong rip currents are possible along the coast in North Carolina. Heavy rainfall could also cause localized flooding. Stream and river flooding may become a concern as well.
-
Mobile health clinic gives life-changing mental health and addiction services.
-
The pups were born to a wolf pair in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
-
The U.S. Drought Monitor says a swath of Eastern North Carolina from Tarboro to Southport is in “severe drought.â€
-
In a Tuesday vote, the council adopted a resolution calling for the removal of the monument. The town intends to relocate the monument to a site within the city limits.
-
The wolves are native to this state and the East Coast of the U.S. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says releasing these wolves could help increase the declining population.
-
Federal wildlife officials overseeing the world’s only wild population of endangered red wolves announced they are abandoning a 2018 plan to limit the animals’ territory and loosen protections for wolves that strayed from that area in eastern North Carolina.
-
WITN reports Oak City Town Clerk Vonetta Porter says Mayor William Stalls died on Sunday. There were no additional details on his death. Stalls had 43 years of service with Oak City Fire & EMS, currently serving as an EMT as well as treasurer.
-
In 1972, the Clean Water Act set a nationwide goal of making all waterways safe for swimming. But thanks to runoff pollution and sewage overflows, beaches in North Carolina are still falling short of that target.