Along North Carolina's fragile barrier islands, the line between ocean and neighborhood is collapsing into the surf. After a ...

Coastal geologist Stanley R. Riggs has spent more than six decades studying North Carolina’s barrier islands, documenting how they shift and evolve as living systems shaped by wind, waves and storms.

More black bears live in North Carolina's coastal plain than in its mountains. Coastal North Carolina is home to some of the world's largest black bears due to ample food and protected habitats. A ...

When Stacy Morgan and her husband, Brandon Dodick, bought their beach house in Buxton, North Carolina, in May, they imagined one day spending their retirement there. Five months later, the house was ...