Imagine a beach that is wide open where you can roam and explore freely. I’m not just talking about our wild horses that call this beach home — I’m talking about your experience when you ...

A group of wild horses cools off with the ocean breeze on the beach in Corolla, N.C., in 2011. (Steve Earley / The Virginian-Pilot) Spanish law then required explorers to bring horses with them to ...

CAROVA BEACH, N.C. — Wild horses are part of what makes the Outer Banks a booming tourist destination every summer. The Corolla wild horses can be found on the northern beaches of Corolla and ...

In 2023, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund announced a secretive family of horses — two adults and a foal — was discovered living like castaways on an island in the sound west of Carova Beach.

A showdown over the fate of wild horses in Wyoming and beyond is looming at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mustang advocates are challenging a recent lower court decision they say will ...

But the most famous residents on one of the islands are, by far, the wild horses. More than 100 "Banker ponies" live on Shackleford Banks.

Puckett says they hate to remove horses from the beach, but there had also been some threats made against them. “There was some talk of putting antifreeze in the garbage,” said Puckett ...

At around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, July 26, representatives from the Corolla Wild Horse Fund said they received a 911 call reporting that a horse was struck. The group said a visitor to the beach ...

"Banker horses, that's what their breed is. We have the herd here at Corolla that's a little over 100, and then there's another herd down at Cape Lookout on Shackleford that's at about the same ...

Six years ago, during a photography workshop in the west desert of Utah, I saw wild horses for the first time, a herd of 100 galloping en masse against a sky full of gathering storm clouds cast in ...

According to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, DNA testing in 1992 determined these horses have the least genetic diversity of any of the herds of Spanish Mustangs found on the Outer Banks, meaning ...