Updated: 6:27 AM Beachgoers in North Carolina this holiday weekend may get a rare opportunity to spot a gray seal.

Updated: 11:27 AM The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.

Posted: 5:16 PM The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating an incident involving the Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry that resulted in a 10-foot wave crashing onto the deck, damaging some cars.

Posted: 7:51 AM A 5-year-old girl has drowned while swimming in a hotel pool in Wilmington.

Updated: 11:37 AM The turtles are considered threatened in the Carolinas and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comment on the designation.

Posted: 10:12 AM The University of North Carolina-Wilmington has settled with the family of a college student shot in 2006 by a New Hanover County Sheriff's deputy.

Updated: 6:35 AM A former volunteer fire department chief in the east is now behind bars after police say he shot his wife and stole a neighbor's truck.

Posted: 1:38 PM Firefighters in Wilmington are going to the public as they seek better pay and benefits.

Updated: 8:02 PM The state's insurance companies and the top state regulator have agreed that homeowner's insurance policies can rise by a statewide average of 7 percent starting in July.

Posted: 8:37 PM Castle Branch plans to create 420 new jobs in North Carolina by the end of 2017 and invest $10.2 million in its New Hanover County location.

Posted: 10:32 AM A North Carolina lawmaker is gauging support for a bill to allow coastal towns to enforce smoking bans on beaches.

Updated: 10:29 AM Currituck County's beaches receded anywhere from 2 to 7 feet along nearly 23 miles of the barrier island in 2011.

Updated: 1:31 PM Debra Saunders-White was named Friday as the 11th leader of North Carolina Central University, a historically black university in Durham.

Posted: 11:23 AM Wilmington police are investigating a rash of home invasions in recent weeks.

Updated: 8:01 PM Officials say the blaze also spread to nearby homes in the coastal Pender County town.

Posted: 10:03 PM A bit of Hollywood has come to Burgaw in Pender County and you can be a part of it.

Updated: 10:30 AM Surf City police say around 3:20 a.m. on January 9th someone broke into the Tsunami Surf Shop.

Posted: 5:47 AM Two women are dead after a head-on collision with a log truck in Pender County.

Updated: 10:56 PM A new high rise bridge will be built over the intracoastal waterway to Topsail Island in Pender County. The project will replace a swing bridge that is nearly 60 years old.

Updated: 7:49 AM New Hanover County officials have agreed to keep sheriff's deputies in all elementary schools for the rest of the year.

Updated: 7:26 PM The surviving members of the Wilmington 10, their families and supporters are basking in their formal pardons in the city where their troubles started.

Updated: 5:50 PM Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has issued pardons to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution.

Updated: 9:15 PM We found a few traditional events around eastern North Carolina. Please leave a comment about any fireworks events or events free to the public to ring in 2013.

Updated: 11:32 AM Wilmington police say a man ended up shooting and killing his own brother after he heard someone breaking the glass to his front door.

Updated: 11:14 AM The National Weather Service in Newport has confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in Carteret County north of Beaufort Wednesday afternoon. Winds are estimated to have reached 90mph.