Wilmington NC

Game 3 on 10/28 at 4:00pm: #7 Southwest VA hosts #10 Wake Tech. Quarterfinals: Friday, October 31; Wilmington, N.C. Game 4 at 12:00 pm: #1 Cape Fear vs. Winner Game 1. Game 6 at 4:00 pm: #2 Fayetteville Tech vs. Winner Game 3. Game 7 at 6:00 pm: #3 Richard...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and the NC Department of Health and Human Services is hosting a job and resource fair for community members to promote that message. The fair will have 40+ vendors, food trucks, and live music, with the goal of helping...

CAPE FEAR, NC (WWAY) — In 2011, Port City Java CEO Steve Schnitzler began an annual tradition in which families from the Cape Fear region host Marines from Camp Lejeune for a Thanksgiving gathering and meal. In collaboration with officials at Camp Lejeune, the program arranges bus transportation for...

Two health care systems in the Cape Fear region submitted applications days apart, seeking the state’s permission to build new hospitals targeting an overlapping service area. Planned 7 miles apart straddling the Columbus and Brunswick County border along U.S. 74, it’s not clear whether health officials were aware...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - 1,946 customers are without power near Shipyard Boulevard, according to the Duke Energy Progress Map. Duke Energy Progress says the cause was the equipment going offline. WECT staff reported that the traffic lights are out at 41st Street and Shipyard Boulevard. The outages were first...

BOLIVIA, NC (WWAY) — The Brunswick County Fire Marshal’s Office will life a burn ban effective Monday at 5 p.m. The lift is on all open burning within 100 feet of an occupied structure for the unincorporated areas within the county. The burn ban was originally issued Thursday...

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Scientists detected high levels of two under-the-radar PFAS chemicals in blood serum samples from residents of Wilmington, North Carolina, collected before the local fluorochemical manufacturing plant began taking measures in 2017 to halt the flow of...

SURF CITY, N.C. (WNCN) — A massive house fire at the North Carolina coast destroyed one island home, damaged four others, and sent thick black smoke into the sky Saturday afternoon, according to the town of Surf City. The blaze was reported around 5:30 p.m. in the north end of Surf City, which is located […]

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — All over Southport, you can see signs that bear the words — Southport Strong. That slogan is on the doors of restaurants that are open again. And it's all over the office of the city’s police chief, Todd Coring. He’s lived here all his life and has served for nearly seven years as chief of police.

Residential growth and clean water demands in Brunswick County are driving capacity projects in the county's northern area. Confidential development site plans for a property behind Mallory Creek have been submitted to the town of Leland by the Brunswick Regional Water and Sewer H2GO. The Brunswick Regional Water and...