What do you wonder about North Carolina? Help us find and investigate stories that matter to you. When experts decided in 1999 that the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse had to be moved to survive, Dare County ...

For 162 years until it fell into the sea in 1926, the landmark Cape Henlopen, Del., lighthouse had warned mariners away from the treacherous shoals that surround the entrance to Delaware Bay. For many ...

Sections of the 150-year-old brick fence that once surrounded the lighthouse were exposed when waves carved a three-foot scarp (cliff) into the sand, the National Park Service says. The once-elaborate ...