Deepening the Wilmington Harbor would disperse PFAS now mingling in the riverbed’s sediment into marshes and onto public beaches, accelerate erosion, exacerbate flooding, destroy habitat, and is not economically justified, residents said during a public hearing. coastalreview.org/2025/11/wilm...

The North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission, during its meeting Thursday, is to consider continuing to give N.C. Department of Transpiration authority to review and approve erosion and sedimentation control plans for land-disturbing activities. coastalreview.org/2025/11/sedi...

"Someone fishing in saltwater should understand tides. More importantly they should understand how tides affect the fish they are pursuing," writes Capt. Gordon Churchill in today's Angler's Angle. coastalreview.org/2025/11/ther...

“Watching the Tides Roll: How Satellites Inform the Future of Coastal Communities“ with Dr. David Lagomasino begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Coastal Studies Institute. coastalreview.org/2025/11/free...

"Most of us know that bees and wasps are pollinators, but what else pollinates flowers and various plants? Sadly, no honey is involved, but no sting, either. It’s butterflies!" Heidi Skinner begins in today's Budding Wisdom. coastalreview.org/2025/11/what...

Sampling at Asheboro's wastewater treatment plant revealed elevated discharges of 1,4-dioxane, a likely human carcinogen, in a waterway upstream of drinking water sources for some 900,000 North Carolinians. coastalreview.org/2025/11/ashe...

The Marine Fisheries Commission is expected to consider adopting more restrictions on the commercial harvest of blue crabs, a move the N.C. Carolina Coastal Counties Fisheries Coalition opposes. coastalreview.org/2025/11/fish...

A gull keeps watch from atop the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division’s vehicle ferry Kinnakeet as it plies the Neuse River between Minnesott Beach and Cherry Branch. Photo: Mark Hibbs

Carolina Beach’s federally authorized beach nourishment project is scheduled to begin Sunday. coastalreview.org/2025/11/caro...

Drainage systems that rely on gravity fail when the difference in elevation that drives water from land to sea has been shrinking as sea level rises. coastalreview.org/2025/11/gues...

The Environmental Management Commission voted to postpone hearing proposed rules to monitor and minimize the two human-made chemical compounds from industrial users and dischargers. coastalreview.org/2025/11/comm...

The deadline is Dec. 5 to submit comments to NCDEQ’s Division of Coastal Management on the proposed project to widen and deepen the Wilmington Harbor. coastalreview.org/2025/11/stat...

Meetings are planned for Nov. 18 to update the public on continuing work to remove contamination from the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. site in Navassa. coastalreview.org/2025/11/offi...

"Our hold on this coast is fleeting": Coastal geologist Stan Riggs shares an excerpt from his new book, "Cape Lookout National Seashore: Paradigm For A Coastal System Ethic." coastalreview.org/2025/11/exce...

The 35-year-old bridge over Blounts Creek, which feeds into the Pamlico River, on Mouth of the Creek Road will be replaced on new location, just south of the existing bridge, NCDOT announced Wednesday. coastalreview.org/2025/11/stat...

Coastal geologist Dr. Stan Riggs will be at Harkers Island's Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center Sunday afternoon to sign copies of his latest work, “Cape Lookout National Seashore: Paradigm for a Coastal System Ethic.” coastalreview.org/2025/11/rigg...

“I've done a lot of work here," Stan Riggs, the East Carolina University professor told Coastal Review, and the book series to be rolled out over three years is a mission to share what he's learned. coastalreview.org/2025/11/coas...

The North Carolina Coastal Federation will accept applications until Dec. 12 from the commercial watermen and women who want to participate in the project to collect lost crab pots on the coast. coastalreview.org/2025/11/comm...

The North Carolina Coastal Federation is putting out a call for commercial fishers to join the Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project taking place in January. coastalreview.org/2025/11/comm...

Coastal Review will not publish Tuesday in observation of Veterans Day. Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.

The third season for the persistently protective volunteers was off to a rough start with abandoned foals having to be removed from the herd, but summer turned around with a filly’s birth on Shackleford Island. coastalreview.org/2025/11/pony...

Organizers say the inaugural Duck Turkey Trot 5K set for Thursday, Nov. 27, is giving youth runners a new event, filling a void in the community, and bringing a beloved tradition back to the Dare County town. coastalreview.org/2025/11/new-...

Duke University researchers have put into dollar figures the true costs to society of cheap plastic products: from $436 billion to $1.1 trillion annually. coastalreview.org/2025/11/manu...

NCDEQ's Division of Marine Fisheries reminds seafood dealers that they need to switch from the PC Trip Ticket Software Program to the new VESL software by the end of the year to report their transactions with fishermen. coastalreview.org/2025/11/seaf...

Recipients say the money will help build on more than a decade of collaboration among state agencies, industry leaders, the N.C. Coastal Federation, N.C. Sea Grant, and others to grow a thriving mariculture sector and coastal economy. coastalreview.org/2025/11/noaa...

The Wilmington City Council adopted a resolution Wednesday opposing Chemours’ proposed expansion of its Fayetteville Works plant. coastalreview.org/2025/11/wilm...

“Where do you do that ’round these parts?” The answer is almost anywhere, if you know when to get there, what to bring and how to use it. Capt. Gordon shares his tips in today's Angler's Angle. coastalreview.org/2025/11/fly-...

The Raleigh Civic Symphony performance Sunday of composer Stephanie Ann Boyd’s “Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals” conducted by Peter Askim will feature the world premiere of a new movement honoring the endangered eastern red wolf in northeastern NC. coastalreview.org/2025/11/rale...

Guest commentary: Deepening the Cape Fear River will only worsen flooding around the downtown Wilmington waterfront and the North Carolina Battleship site and lead to a substantial loss of vital wetlands and floodplains. coastalreview.org/2025/11/port...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Marine Fisheries Division is hosting meetings in Wilmington, Manteo and Morehead City to cover relevant topics such as mandatory harvest reporting. coastalreview.org/2025/11/stat...

A deer harvested in Edgecombe County has preliminarily tested positive for the disease, which would be the states 35th confirmed case since 2022, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said Tuesday. coastalreview.org/2025/11/deer...

The group formed in opposition to a proposed but failed shrimp-trawling ban is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Morehead City. coastalreview.org/2025/11/coas...

Staff at the Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Sanctuary and Audubon Center in Corolla are crediting a recently completed habitat-restoration project with luring birds and wildlife back to a previously problem-prone pond. coastalreview.org/2025/11/shor...

The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission’s Water Quality Committee may take action on proposed monitoring and minimization rules for three PFAS and 1,4-dioxane during its Nov. 12 meeting. coastalreview.org/2025/11/emc-...

Sen. Bobby Hanig, who represents a portion of the Outer Banks, asks the governor's office to declare a state of emergency be declared, for the “affected Ocracoke area (Highway 12, encompassing Hatteras and Ocracoke) and activate all state resources.” coastalreview.org/2025/11/oute...

The massacre took place on Nov. 10, 1898, when a mob of armed white men marched to a local African American newspaper and set it on fire following a campaign by prominent white citizens in the city to overthrow the legally elected biracial city government. coastalreview.org/2025/11/even...

The Wilmington-based Alliance for Cape Fear Trees has released a 45-page guide to help local governments grow greener, healthier canopies. coastalreview.org/2025/11/cape...

Carteret County native Bill Lewis has spent the last few years digging through records to corroborate what he's always heard: that 13 of his ancestors are buried in unmarked graves in the Old Burying Ground. coastalreview.org/2025/10/reco...

Mock pound cake: Guilty pleasure or culinary crime? The first printed recipe for true pound cake dates to 1747, but the debate over the definition of mock pound cake continues to this day. coastalreview.org/2025/10/mock...

Public comments will be accepted through Dec. 15 on a draft rule that would allow domestic wastewater discharges into zero-flow streams. coastalreview.org/2025/10/wast...

Operators of vessels 65 or longer must maintain speeds of 10 knots or slower through federal seasonal management areas for North Atlantic right whales. coastalreview.org/2025/10/noaa...

Coastal reporter Kip Tabb takes a stroll along the North Pond Wildlife Trail at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on a quest to see rarely seen species and migratory waterfowl. coastalreview.org/2025/10/tabb...

Including the four houses that crumbled Tuesday, 14 houses in Buxton and Rodanthe have fallen as of Sept. 30, making the total 26 structures to collapse since May 29, 2020. coastalreview.org/2025/10/four...

Ocracoke Preservation Society is hosting the homes tour Nov. 28 that will include a first look at the ongoing renovations of Island Inn, which was built in 1901 and has been an Odd Fellow’s Lodge, a school, Navy officer’s club, a coffee shop and more. coastalreview.org/2025/10/tick...

Chemours is not a company that can be trusted to expand its operations responsibly, and it’s an example of the national PFAS pollution crisis, writes Drew Ball of the Natural Resources Defense Council. coastalreview.org/2025/10/chem...

OBX Room in The Inn, the only shelter in Dare County for unhoused persons, announced Monday its new leadership for the coming year. coastalreview.org/2025/10/dare...

State transportation officials are hosting an open house and public hearing Tuesday evening on the proposed Jacksonville Parkway extension. coastalreview.org/2025/10/ncdo...

Those who spoke last week at the EPA's hearing on Asheboro's wastewater permit urged the agency to uphold its objection to the city's proposed permit with no effluent discharge limit for 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply of hundreds of thousands downstream. coastalreview.org/2025/10/oppo...

The North Atlantic right whale population rose slightly in 2024, but while marine scientists are encouraged, they say strong protective measures are still needed. coastalreview.org/2025/10/nort...

NCDEQ’s Division of Marine Fisheries and North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission staff have planned an informational meeting for 6 p.m. Nov. 5 in Washington on management changes for striped bass in the Tar-Pamlico and Neuse rivers. coastalreview.org/2025/10/estu...