The public has opportunity to comment on several proposed rules to permits, franchises and shellfish leases at a hearing later this month and in writing through September.

Jody Hopkins and his son Oden of Grimesland established state records for a channel scabbardfish and a spinycheek scorpion fish while fishing 33 miles off Ocracoke.

These tasty, gold-spotted speedsters are the target of many an angler along the Carolina coast, and there's a method suited to everyone's fishing style.

Belville's seven-term mayor who served the town for more than 15 years died Tuesday night, the town announced Wednesday.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson, during a tour of Pollocksville Tuesday, said he is confident that courts will remove a block ...

A collaborative project of North Carolina Sea Grant and the NC Oyster Trail, the exhibit featuring the work of Raleigh-based ...

The nonprofit conservation group is challenging the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging it acted illegally in deciding to continue classifying the critically endangered population of red wolves as ...

Oak Island issued multiple citations to operators of three vehicles that illegally drove on the town's ocean shore and, when attempting to drive off the beach, destroyed a beach access mat.