The Mother Vine produces scuppernong grapes, the state's official fruit since 2001, and dates back to the early days of the ...

Heavy smoke is visible coming from the Outer Banks Friday afternoon. These pictures shared with News 3 were taken in the ...

A person was airlifted to Norfolk General Hospital with injuries sustained from a house explosion and ensuing fire in a ...

Roanoke Island is a little like a cross between Lewes, Del., and the "olde country" at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, only without the roller coasters. You have a quaint little village full of shops ...

As film lovers enjoy the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film about a frightful shark, the N.C. Aquarium on ...

HISTORIC ROANOKE ISLAND; Site of the First English Settlement in America, and Birthplace of Virginia Dare. A Choice Spot Where Sportsmen and Fishermen Are Welcomed and Where the Supply of Game ...

Here are 13 facts about the origins and demise of Roanoke Island’s hapless colony—and several theories about where its inhabitants may have ended up. 1.

Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...