Heavy surf on Tuesday afternoon Aug. 20 around high tide is already lapping at the dunes north of the pony pens on Ocracoke, ...

Hurricane Erin is expected to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the Eastern U.S. coast this week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Erin is a Category 2 storm with maximum ...

Evacuations were ordered beginning Monday on Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks, the thin stretch of low-lying barrier islands that juts far into the Atlantic.

Hurricane Erin churned slowly toward the eastern U.S. on Tuesday, stirring up treacherous waves that already have led to ...

One photographer, who's shot Hatteras Island and the storms that blow in for 17 years, said the island is "running out of beach." ...