Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Onlookers view houses surrounded by crashing waves as one collapses into the surf in Buxton on the N.C. Outer Banks on Thursday, ...

At least six North Carolina beach houses crumbled into the ocean Tuesday as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda roared past the East Coast. Five houses – all built on stilts – collapsed Tuesday in Buxton, ...

Three houses, all on the same street, have fallen into the sea in Rodanthe, North Carolina, in less than a week. And officials say the threat of more collapses in the Outer Banks is only growing. The ...

Those are the sobering words from Duke University geology professor emeritus Orrin Pilkey, who told our media partners at the News & Observer that the days are numbered for North Carolina's beaches.

A low-pressure system that has hugged the coast this week dropped five more beach houses into the ocean on Tuesday along the Buxton waterfront and sent sand and water across N.C. 12 on Hatteras Island ...

Videos from the N.C. Outer Banks in recent weeks have been compelling in a train-wreck kind of way, but instead of smoke and serpentined steel, it's waves, water-logged timber and the collapse of ...