ATLANTIC BEACH — Town staff may be moving to temporary office space in Atlantic Station shopping center on West Fort Macon Road in December and January.

CARTERET COUNTY — As Carteret County’s towns gear up for Halloween activities, County Health Department Director Stephanie Cannon urges safety precautions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

EMERALD ISLE — Emerald Isle is one of five towns in Carteret County that will participate Saturday with the County Sheriff’s Office in theannual “Operation Medicine Drop” and “Pills Can Kill” prescription drug takeback program.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Bids are coming in on the Atlantic Beach public safety building and admin complex project, and town officials are in favor of a 15-year loan to help pay for it.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Town planners are recommending the Atlantic Beach Town Council greenlight a rezoning for two residential lots on New Bern Avenue.

PINE KNOLL SHORES — Bogue Banks’ economically crucial beaches are in good shape, thanks to millions of dollars spent on ongoing beach nourishment efforts, according to a report presented Monday to the Carteret County Beach Commission.

EMERALD ISLE — Emerald Isle police Friday afternoon announced the arrest of a Cedar Point woman in connection to numerous thefts that occurred in that town, Indian Beach and Atlantic Beach.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Town officials are seeking a permanent change in the speed limit along Fort Macon Road, reducing it to 35 mph along its entire length year-round.

ATLANTIC BEACH - Active and retired firefighters stopped a fire from spreading Sunday through Peppertree Villas.

EMERALD ISLE — Purple flags flew on Emerald Isle beaches last week, warning oceangoers of the presence in the water of sea butterflies, an organism related to snails, but capable of inflicting painful though generally harmless “stings” from their sharp bodies.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Emerald Isle has announced changes to this closure plan since this story published. Find the updated report here. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was updated 2:04 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, 2001, with further information.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Requesting a lower speed limit from the N.C. Department of Transportation and extending wastewater service to the Atlantic Beach Causeway are still on the table for the Atlantic Beach Town Council.

CORRECTION This article was updated at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 to correct the name of the complex requesting the speed changes. 

ATLANTIC BEACH — Town planners are recommending a land-use plan to the town council that includes exploring wastewater service options along the Atlantic Beach Causeway.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Yet another beach nourishment project is scheduled for Bogue Banks this winter.

ATLANTIC BEACH — The town council may select its contractor for the public safety building project this fall, now that its approved a pre-construction service contract.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Maintaining a small-town look and feel, developing the Atlantic Beach Causeway corridor and improving walkability are just a few of the goals laid out in the town’s updated Coastal Area Management Act Land Use Plan, which was unveiled in draft form recently.

CARTERET COUNTY — With another round of federal funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act on the way, the county’s municipalities are planning how they will spend their share of the relief money.

CARTERET COUNTY — After two years of serious, devastating hurricanes, those who hunkered down in Carteret County Monday night ahead of Tropical Storm Isaias were largely spared another blow.

EMERALD ISLE — Carteret County will have to wait until Monday, Aug. 10 to open bids and perhaps award a contract for the next Bogue Banks beach nourishment project.

PINE KNOLL SHORES — The planting of vegetation to help stabilize new dunes created in the Bogue Banks beach nourishment project completed this spring is finished.

ATLANTIC BEACH — The public safety building project is on track to go to bid in September, with a groundbreaking tentatively scheduled for late November.

ATLANTIC BEACH — Town officials will receive an update on the public safety building project Monday.