Police Chief Sam Gervase. Bladen County has declared a Stage 1 voluntary water conservation notice, asking all water ...

Much of North Carolina, including the Wilmington area, is now listed under severe or extreme drought conditions, and local ...

Dr. Jim Leutze, who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1990 to 2003, died over the ...

Six months after 16-year-old Autumn Spivey was killed in a drive-by shooting, investigators have made no arrests, and her ...

A new Medicare program is making select GLP-1 weight loss drugs more affordable for eligible patients, with costs as low as $50 a month.

CASTLE HAYNE, N.C. (WECT) - One person is dead and another is hospitalized following a four-vehicle crash on U.S. 117 South ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $7 million grant to stabilize the eroding bank at Snow’s Cut, the waterway ...

The Wilmington Fire Department has installed 100 SmartBurners in on-campus apartments at UNC Wilmington’s Seahawk Crossing to ...

Deputies responded to the 5200 block of Blue Clay Road, where one person was shot with a pellet gun, according to a sheriff’s ...

Contract crews are set to reach a major milestone next week in the long-awaited interchange project at N.C. 87 and N.C. 11.

The Town of Topsail Beach has appointed Sergeant Timothy Flewwellin as interim chief of police, effective Aug. 1, following ...