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The average rent in Wilmington is finally dropping after a feverish rise during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city was 17th highest for percent rent increases of every metro in the country. WHQR’s Kelly Kenoyer and Ben Schachtman have the details.
CoastLine
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A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water, is the newest book from nature writer and New York Times bestselling author David Gessner. His daughter, Hadley, is an undergraduate at New York University. They join us to explore what climate science tells us about the prospect of a hotter, drier, more storm-prone, less livable planet by 2063, the year she turns 60.
The Newsroom
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North Carolina is the tenth most religious state in the union, according to U.S. News and World Report — but what does that mean for solving one of the most serious crises facing our community? In light of that question, One Christian Network came together in February to host a panel on solving the affordable housing crisis, and the role the church and people of faith can take in it. On today's show, highlights from that forum.
More Local News
- CFR: Housing and budget updates
- Bob Fulton to run for Brunswick County commissioner as an independent
- Southeastern U.S. tops the list for rural eviction rates
- New Hanover County school board tries to close the door on Mosley, newcomers school discussion
- NHC school advocates rally to keep jobs, address massive budget shortage
- State and federal agencies set to work out proposed height (and cost) of Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement
- National expert says housing shortage, not other factors, causes homelessness
- CFR: Elections wrap up!
- The Dive: A bellwether in the primary election, and a look at low voter turnout
- Courts dismiss CFCC student’s claim she was mistreated, but there’s more to the story
- So, what is a Newcomers School? WHQR went to find out.
- Pender County 2024 primary election results show several upsets
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Kim Lebby
- WHQR's new arts reporter interviews Lumbee singer-songwriter Alexis Raeana
- Back to the 80s: WHQR Birthday Bash
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Wilmington Theater Awards
- Passages: A portrait of Cuba and passenger trains in the American South: work by Christina Beam and Karen Healy
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Best Foot Forward
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Madagascar: A Musical Adventure Jr
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Caterina Jarbora Recital
- Cinematique Presents: Zone of Interest
- Cinematique Presents: The Taste of Things
- Cinematique Presents: American Fiction
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Death of a Salesman
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Kelly and Ben join us to give some important local updates.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we dig into the complicated world of cannabanoids and drug laws. Plus, the latest on the civil suit filed by the former director of the drug lab once run by the Wilmington Police Department, and a trip down the rabbit hole of North Carolina's notoriously opaque Grand Jury system.
National News
- Rents are high and housing vouchers are hard to get. So Philly is giving renters cash
- Biden administration bans the final kind of asbestos still legal in the U.S.
- A bill to legalize syringe services in Pennsylvania faces many challenges
- Morning news brief
- Ga. inmate seeks clemency to avoid state's first execution in more than 4 years
- Minnesota joins other states pressuring packaging firms to make materials recyclable
- A refugee family was going hungry — until a fast food manager risked his job to help
- For the 68 orphans saved from Rafah, the road to recovery is likely to be a long one
- Young conservatives have grown up in Trump's Republican Party. Now, it's time to vote
- United Airlines CEO tries to reassure customers that the airline is safe
State News
- Founder of National Negro Opera Company subject of new Charlotte exhibition
- High-pressure system brings freeze, fire danger in Western North Carolina
- The very small battlefield over the NC House in this fall's elections
- NC lawmaker in close primary files protest claiming voting issues
- Conversation with the Museum of Cherokee People: Sovereignty and Self Determination
- As Hmong immigrants in NC get older, their adult children shoulder the labor of interpretation
- As Hmong immigrants in NC get older, their adult children shoulder the labor of interpretation
- Wood pellet maker Enviva files Chapter 11
- A ‘modern-like military barracks’ nonprofit in Granville County is seeking more veteran applicants
- Hunting has a diversity problem, and an NC State program aims to fix it