WRAL

Outer Banks horse Riptide visits NC lawmakers to seek state funding

Riptide, a wild horse from the Outer Banks, traveled to the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh as part of an effort by the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to secure $1 million in state funding for ...

Wild horse deemed a ‘serious threat' removed from NC's Outer Banks, officials say

County ordinances forbid humans to get within 50 feet of the wild horses, which are known to bite and kick. Feeding them is also illegal and potentially deadly, due to their digestive system being ...
Yahoo

Outer Banks officials announce foal season along NC coast, warning visitors to keep distance from wild horses

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Officials at the Outer Banks are reminding North Carolina beach visitors that it’s foal season for the wild horses along the coast. Two photos of recently born horses at ...
The Island Packet

Wild horse killed by vehicle driving in dark on Outer Banks beach, NC cops say

Alex was a 5-year-old stallion and the last of his genetic line on the Outer Banks, officials say. “Alex’s genetics can never be replaced, and in a critically endangered population that is a ...
WAFB

Impaired driver hits and kills wild horse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, deputies say

OUTER BANKS, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) - North Carolina authorities say a young stallion was hit and killed just after midnight on Saturday. According to the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office, the horse ...
The Virginian-Pilot

The story of Outer Banks wild horses has survived 500 years. Their future is not guaranteed.

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...