Outer Banks

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A new bridge that shifts the main road on North Carolina's Outer Banks off a frequently-flooded section of Hatteras Island still isn't open, three months after officials held a grand opening. State transportation officials blame the holdup on poor quality pavement markings.

Officials on North Carolina's northern Outer Banks are urging a federal appeals court to uphold approval of a proposed half-billion-dollar bridge they say would improve traffic flow to and from the mainland.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers are working to open a new boating channel at Oregon Inlet at North Carolina's Outer Banks because of sand on the existing route.

The federal government will auction leases Wednesday for two potential wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean off Wilmington. Someday they could power a half-million homes, but there's still years of work before that happens.

A new bridge that will bypass an often-flooded section of the main road on North Carolina's Outer Banks will open as soon as this week, ahead of the spring and summer travel season. It's a fix for a problem that has worsened with climate change.

Environmental and citizens groups have filed a federal court appeal in hopes of stopping a half-billion-dollar bridge proposed at North Carolina's Outer Banks. And they're citing sea level rise as an argument.

The marshes in and around the Pine Island Sanctuary house some 183 different bird species. But they are eroding due to the effects of rising seas and a changing climate. Now, the Audubon Society has embarked on a years-long surveying project to map the habitat of rare, secretive marsh birds. What they hear from the birds will serve as an indicator of what could happen to the marshes.

The National Park Service was instrumental in building the bridge over North Carolina's Oregon Inlet after establishing Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the 1930s.

With the pandemic easing its grip, the summer vacation season is expected to set tourism records on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. But business owners won’t be able to take full advantage of the crowds because of COVID-19 and worker shortages.