Leading women scientists in the Cape Fear region will highlight the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) 2023 Femme in STEM on Saturday.
According to Gail Lemeic with the aquarium, visitors will have the opportunity to look through microscopes, experience a tornado machine, and even get their hands dirty with some soil samples.
The hospital thought they would be out of luck, or that’s what they thought until a little divine intervention.
Five years following Hurricane Florence, we spoke with a Whiteville City official who shared his memories of the unforgiving storm.
The North Carolina Coastal Federation and dozens of volunteers took part in helping maintain the shoreline at Veterans Park in Oak Island.
New Hanover County was one of the hardest hit areas as the Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Wrightsville Beach and years later, there are still people trying to recover.
This week marks 34 years since the Town of Leland was officially incorporated on September 12, 1989. But it took a long time to get to that point.
Thursday marks five years since Hurricane Florence rocked the Cape Fear Region and half a decade later several communities are still recovering.
An event is taking place this weekend in St. James to raise money and awareness to prevent suicide among veterans. Kevin and Gay Murga said their son, Capt. Austin Murga, died by military PTSD suicide 6 months after returning from fighting along side Special Ops in Afganistan in 2020.
From learning how to design an app to using coding to paint a drawing, the new Sparklab at Southeast Area Technical High School is giving students the opportunity to be a part of the future of technology.
The Wilmington Fire Department adding another four-legged friend to its Crisis Response Program.
Health officials in New Hanover County recently confirmed that some mosquitoes in the county have tested positive for West Nile Virus. We reached out to the county to learn more about mosquitoes in the area and how they are managed.
Gov. Roy Cooper made a stop at a Cape Fear preschool Wednesday afternoon. Cooper met with teachers and students at ‘Mary Washington Howe Pre-K Center’ in Wilmington. He announced new funding for North Carolina Pre-K classrooms.
The Pender County Board of Education voted to fund repairs to Burgaw Middle School on Tuesday night.
Carolina Beach Town Council is meeting Tuesday evening, and one topic of discussion is an ordinance dealing with digging holes on the beach.
Older adults lose billions of dollars each year to scams. The ‘Cape Fear Elder Abuse Prevention Network’ held an event Tuesday to create awareness about some of the ways people are scammed.
New Hanover County Commissioners discussed Project Grace with the Local Government Commission Tuesday.
A lot has changed in the last three decades with a much higher population, and an explosion of new businesses.
One business in New Hanover County is expanding and even breaking ground on a new headquarters. The German-based manufacturer, ‘Kesseböhmer’, broke ground on a new facility off U.S. Hwy. 421 Tuesday morning.
A Wilmington resident had his time to shine this weekend in the Big Apple.
Thousands of people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Those of us old enough to remember 9/11 as it is called, know precisely where we were. At the time, I was working at TV news station in Charlotte and remember how we covered this developing story locally as news organizations across the country did that day.
343. That is the number of first responders who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11th, 2001.
Members of SeaCoast CrossFit in Wilmington traveled to Washington D.C. on Saturday to begin their journey at the Pentagon Memorial, and Monday, they will reach their final destination at Ground Zero in New York City, marking this somber day in history.
A Brunswick County non-profit has moved into a new location and is ready to serve its customers.
A man who worked at the World Trade Center now lives in Wilmington.