Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) reminds visitors and adjacent homeowners that it is illegal to detonate fireworks, or have fireworks in your possession, on all Seashore ...

The Ocracoke Youth Center will hold a baseball camp for players aged 8 to 14 from July 14 to 17. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer Ocracoke Youth Center will offer its first ever Ocracoke ...

The Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department starts the July 4 parade at 4 p.m. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer OCRACOKE -- Ocracoke Island’s Independence Day activities this year will be held over ...

Susie O’Neal, manager of the Ocracoke Seafood Company, was at the State Legislative Building in Raleigh on Tuesday along with hundreds of North Carolinian shrimpers, sea food workers and ...

Fowler and Chloe O'Neal. Photo courtesy of the family. Chloe Ann O’Neal, 88, of Ocracoke passed away peacefully at home on June 21, 2025, surrounded by her family. Born April 4, 1937, on Ocracoke, she ...

Shrimp-ban protesters continue to work the North Carolina Legislature in Raleigh on June 25. Photo by Bob Phillips By Connie Leinbach A cheer went up in the hallways of the N.C. State Legislative ...

We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful island, the last island of the Outer Banks, N.C. Ocracoke is the southernmost island of the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ocracoke, in Hyde County, is very ...