A formal ceremony is marking the end of an eight-week expedition to recover artifacts from the ship believed to have belonged to Blackbeard.

The state insurance commissioner says a proposed homeowners insurance rate hike is not justified and he's calling for a hearing on the request.

The board of commissioners in the town of Emerald Isle is encouraging homeowners there to speak out against a proposed insurance rate increase, adopting a resolution of their own against it.

The convicted sex offender accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl from the east three weeks ago appeared before a Carteret County judge this morning.

Andre Jones of Morehead City is charged with failing to change his address as a sex offender.

Five Carteret County men have been arrested for child sex offenses or abduction cases in just a month's time.

Dennis Jackson of Swansboro has been charged with the November 26th armed robbery at T&W Oyster Bar on Highway 58.

Jeffrey Commander of Pine Knoll Shores is charged with indecent liberties with a child.

Beaufort commissioners in Carteret County announced Monday the Front Street Village Project is almost 22 months ahead of schedule.

The North Carolina Seafood Festival is now at an end, but not before a tradition took place intended to safe guard those who work on the high seas.

If you haven't heard the name Guy Harvey, you've still probably seen his work. He's know for his paintings of blue marlins and other marine life. WITN spoke with Harvey at a North Carolina Seafood Festival event in Morehead City Friday.

A landscaper got quite a scare Thursday morning when he came up on a hefty alligator at a nursery.

Good eats, a chefs tent for those looking to learn something, and a boat show for the motor heads.

Two teachers who were on the field trip to Fort Macon last week have resigned, according to the Havelock News. A high school senior almost drowned during the trip.

The Carteret County School District says it will run out of money to fuel their school buses by the end of the school year.

The new Amtrak bus connector service in several Eastern Carolina cities gets underway Wednesday.

Five people, including two children, had to be hospitalized Saturday morning after a four vehicle crash in Newport.

An autopsy says an elderly Carteret County woman died from a blow to her head. Her great niece has been charged with her murder.

The Pamlico Sound is closing to all large-mesh gill net fishing because of problems with endangered sea turtles.

All the rain we had in Eastern Carolina this year means a bad harvest for pumpkin farmers.

Three men have been arrested for a series of burglaries that have happened at the beach. Police say they have recovered some $2,000 in stolen loot.

A Carteret County teen wanted for statutory rape has been arrested.

Authorities say a registered sex offender has exposed himself yet again to people in his neighborhood, this time to a mother and her adult daughter.

Two men with a history of drug related crimes were arrested in Carteret County for trafficking cocaine.

Trooper J.A. Tucker says Roger Applewhite, Jr. of Morehead City was killed at the scene. The 39-year-old man was thrown from the moped.