The live auction at the 2024 Seafood Fest to benefit the Ocracoke Health Center. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer The Ocracoke Health Center will hold its fourth Seafood Festival ...

Being Flamboyant,’ a float by Ocracoke Harbor Inn, wins Best in Show for the July 4, 2025, parade. Photo by Jeanne Brook Ocracoke staff report Steve and Brandy Payment of Orlando, ...

C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer By Sam Walker SamWalkerOBXNews.com President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that tells the National ...

A shrimp trawler in the Pamlico Sound. Photo by P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer “Don’t you get tired of the fight?” someone asked after the June 17 Ocracoke Civic & Business Association ...

Ocracoke Oyster Company: Bryan Mayer, 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 8 Ocracoke Preservation Society Porch Talks: The Lost Colony, Scott Dawson, 1 pm. Postponed. MiniBar at Ocracoke Coffee: Family game night, ...

The All-Star Jam finale of the 2025 Ocrafolk Festival. Photo: P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer By Connie Leinbach Every year the Ocrafolk Music & Storytelling Festival aims to bring some new artists as ...

From our news services As of Saturday morning, the cyclone off the southeastern coast remains identified as Tropical Depression Three. It has begun slow movement north-northwest towards the ...

P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer By Joy Crist, Island Free Press In a sweeping three-year study mandated by the North Carolina General Assembly, the North Carolina ...