The Mattamuskeet School community is mourning the death of a sixth-grade student who passed away on Thursday, August 28, 2025."It is with heavy hearts and great ...

HYDE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Matttamuskeet School in Hyde County shared some sad news on its Facebook page Thursday night about the loss of a student.

The sun sets over Lake Mattamuskeet on a January 2024 afternoon. Conservation groups are asking a federal court to stop the use of a chemical treatment at Lake Mattamuskeet in eastern North ...

SWAN QUARTER, N.C. (WNCT) — Lake Mattamuskeet is the subject of possible research to return the waters to where they were before being impacted by blue-green algae. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will use a chemical to improve water quality in Lake Mattamuskeet. Conservationists worry it will harm birds at North Carolina's largest freshwater lake.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to delay a pilot program that would have applied a chemical treatment to improve water quality at Lake Mattamuskeet as a lawsuit against it continues.

A label for the proposed algae treatment says it is toxic to birds, but Lake Mattamuskeet was founded as a refuge for migratory birds.

Lake Mattamuskeet (Photo: Lisa Sorg) Young Kang, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, had not even finished announcing his last name when Judge Terence Boyle cut him off. “Why are ...

An unusually high number of tundra swans found dead at Lake Mattamuskeet (WITN) Similar results have been found in birds submitted from this location in previous years.

The Mattamuskeet Lodge has been closed to the public since engineers discovered serious structural problems in 2000.

The label says the chemical is toxic to birds. Now, the US Fish and Wildlife Service won’t use it in a bird sanctuary until at least 2025.