The National Weather Service in Newport, N.C., issued a flash flood emergency Friday morning for the Outer Banks, citing “rapid water level rises on the eastern portion of Pamlico Sound ...

Rock by the barge full is currently being dropped into a section of the Pamlico Sound as part of an oyster sanctuary on the NC coast. Worldwide oyster populations are struggling, and while they ...

An incorrigible swath of water between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pamlico Sound, the inlet was slashed out during a September 1846 hurricane that hit North Carolina’s barrier islands.

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) -Five sites on the Tar-Pamlico failed the Sound Rivers Swim Guide test this week, ending the river’s clean-water streak. “Heavy, flashy rains have brought concentrated ...