The public is reminded to avoid contact with discolored water as it may indicate the presence of an algal bloom.

By measuring a humpback whale eye specimen, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Duke University researchers found ...

In the past decade, fast-growing Brunswick County has approved projects with nearly 50,000 new homes, most still being built, amid calls for a development pause and storms that have brought ...

State recreation water quality officials are advising beachgoers in Oak Island to stay away from an area of ocean surf where town officials have been pumping floodwaters caused by recent rainfall.