It was the first colony to vote for independence from ... and public services to keep up with its growing population. North Carolina's healthcare system has really improved lately, mostly because ...

A series of barrier islands along North Carolina’s coast, the Outer Banks offer hang gliding, wild horse tours and fresh ...

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

Asian needle ants spread across 20 US states causing life-threatening allergic reactions. The invasive species peaks in ...

For the first time, New Jersey officials recorded white ibis nesting in Ocean County. In five years, the white ibis ...

Keep your distance: Getting within 50 feet of wild horses on the Outer Banks is punishable by law. Cruelty, enticing, harboring, luring, seizing, and failure to report injury are unlawful, according ...

Inspiring to imagine but nightmarish to live in, these failed communes have become cautionary tales in hubris and ego.

The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, ...

From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S. population remains ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...