A UNC-led study says decades of road protection efforts may be accelerating erosion and putting the Outer Banks at greater risk.

Two homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks sit precariously in high waves generated by Hurricane Erin with their days ...

Conditions along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast will deteriorate over the next 24 to 36 hours as Hurricane Erin makes its closest approach, bringing storm surge flooding and life-threatening rip currents ...

The biggest threat is along the barrier islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks where evacuations have been ordered.

Impacts are already being felt, with sand and water washing over Highway 12 in Buxton on Tuesday, although the road has since ...

Hurricane Erin, churning north in the Atlantic hundreds of miles offshore, is expected to trigger a dangerous storm surge and ...

Hurricane Erin is marching north and is set to bring life-threatening rip currents, destructive waves, coastal flooding and ...

Hurricane Erin remains a powerful Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph. However, the National Hurricane Center said ...

Hurricane Erin began strengthening again Wednesday as it crept closer to the mid-Atlantic coast, its outer bands brushing North Carolina’s Outer Banks as<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Even though Erin is expected to stay hundreds of miles offshore, its impacts are forecast to worsen as it crawls northward and makes its closest approach to the U.S. mainland. Erin was generating ...

Greensboro firefighters assist Outer Banks amid Hurricane Erin, focusing on humanitarian relief and supporting local ...