Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beachfront home in Buxton, North Carolina, was intentionally torn down on Monday, May 18, to avoid meeting the same fate as ...

This is the latest installment in our Main Street NC series from the WUNC Politics Podcast. We're visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the issues and challenges ...

On June 2, drone footage captured the remains of a house that was standing mere hours earlier.

More than 30 unoccupied homes have fallen victim to erosion and coastal storms since 2020, according to the National Park Service’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Tuesday’s collapse was the first ...

Houses on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in recent years almost routinely fall into the ocean. What can be done to fix it? BUXTON, North Carolina — The hurricane that felled Bonnie Lattimore’s ...

A 141-ton beach house crawled inland through Buxton's receding beach as crews raced to pull another oceanfront property away from the surf before hurricane season begins. The seven-bedroom home is one ...

BUXTON, NC. – Four Outer Banks beachfront homes have collapsed within the first two days of February, following a nor’easter that battered the region with not only snow, but intense wind gusts, high ...

BUXTON, N.C. — New video from Buxton, a community along North Carolina's Outer Banks, shows crews attempting to shore up and save an oceanfront house sitting barely above the tideline. Many of these ...

BUXTON, N.C.– A home on the beach on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina was torn down on Monday to save it from an inevitable collapse. Video from Jenni Koontz of Epic Shutter ...

A group of Republican state senators want to repeal North Carolina's ban on coastal structures like jetties and groins to manage beach erosion. For decades, the state has banned the use of "hardened ...

As North Carolinians head to the beach for Memorial Day weekend, many will find something that has become increasingly rare along parts of the East Coast: miles of shoreline uninterrupted by rock ...