It covers losses not covered by USDA programs or crop insurance, including infrastructure damage, market losses, future economic losses and timber losses.

This year's Fall Litter Sweep also serves as a lead-up to the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest-ever community improvement initiative.

The air is turning cooler and the kids are back in school, and that means it’s time for the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Southport-Fort Fisher, Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and Cedar Island-Ocracoke ferry routes to make their annual transitions to off-season schedules.



Officials with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission said black bears increase the amount of food they eat in late summer through fall, to prepare for the colder months when natural food is less available. It’s called hyperphagia and it means “extreme appetite.”

The owners said an engineering team has carefully inspected the entire pier and have identified the repairs necessary; a contractor intends to start the work as soon as possible.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Ellis Boyle said the allegations against Zachary Newell of Newport “deeply disturb” federal law enforcement agents and “have no place in our society, certainly not in Eastern North Carolina.”

Darlene Brooks says Jim was not only a former Marine, but a construction worker – and the illness that appeared in his 50s devastated him. "Battling breast cancer was very difficult,” she said, “For one thing, Jim did was kind of embarrassed that it was breast cancer. And you know, like we didn't hear men having breast cancer.”

Anglers can only catch-and-release trout between Oct. 1 and June 5, 2026. They can’t use natural bait and may fish only with artificial lures with one single hook.

Although the advisory has been lifted, officials in Atlantic Beach remind people to swim with caution because lifeguards are no longer on duty for the season.

The Camp Lejuene Justice Act was signed into law more than three years ago, and nearly all of the legal claims that resulted from it – more than 400,000 of them – are still mired in the legal process.

Police Chief Jared Phelps said the devices, which they began using September 1, replace the department's existing in-car camera systems. The cameras will be distributed across the Patrol, K-9, and Criminal Intelligence Units.

Every year, people go missing on public lands without being recorded in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and Senator Thom Tillis said that oversight is impeding law enforcement in search and rescue efforts.