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Wrightsville Beach works to secure future of beach renourishmentÂ
With nearly 20 years remaining on a federally authorized 50-year program to keep its beaches wide with sand, Wrightsville Beach is in danger of...
New parks transform urban space into oases
Two of the newest parks in New Hanover County aren’t expansive green spaces, but small urban plots attached to the Cape Fear Museum and...
Group home residency limits still up in the air
In an odd turn of events Monday, the New Hanover County Commissioners approved, reconsidered and finally tabled a proposed six-resident limit on group recovery...
For teachers, vacation is over
Most New Hanover County students still have a few days of summer freedom left before cracking the books, but their teachers are already hard...
VA water problems persist
Although officials have been working for five months to find and remove the cause of tainted drinking water at the Wilmington Veterans Administration clinic,...
Our thoughts
Duke Energy is volunteering to drain and remove coal ash stored in ponds at three more sites in North Carolina and has asked a...
Group home residency limits still up in the air
In an odd turn of events Monday, the New Hanover County Commissioners approved, reconsidered and finally tabled a proposed six-resident limit on group recovery...
Local communities, business interests unite to oppose sales-tax redistribution
The state Senate’s plan to change how sales tax revenues are distributed is an assault on cities and counties that raise the lion’s share...
Our thoughts
When my daughter entered kindergarten, I wrote a letter filled with my hopes for her and my own conflicted feelings about letting go. School...
Permit would allow Duke Energy to violate pollution limits, speakers say
A permit allowing Duke Energy to pump wastewater from its leaking coal-ash ponds into the Cape Fear River and Sutton Lake does not go...