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The Skyline Center, Wilmington’s city hall.
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Firings and reorganization have created a climate of fear and confusion in city hall, some employees say
Kelly Kenoyer
More than a dozen current and former City of Wilmington staff have spoken to WHQR, describing deteriorating morale in the wake of Becky Hawke’s restructuring and terminations of previous staff.
The Martin Marietta facility in northern New Hanover County, off of Holy Shelter Road.
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Proposed Martin Marietta quarry expansion in northern New Hanover County raises community concerns
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A student enrolled in Davidson-Davie Community College’s truck driver training program backs a tractor-trailer into a parking space during a class in June.
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New program provides financial aid for workforce training, but few NC community college courses qualify
Jacob Biba, NC Local
The Newsroom
  • Meeting people where they are: NPR's Tamara Keith on covering people and politics
    This year's WHQR luncheon guest was Tamara Keith, Senior Political Correspondent and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Keith spoke about covering the president, the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and her new series, Swing Shift, a long-term project to document the perspectives of voters in swing states. Keith also took questions from our audience and sat down with WHQR News Director Ben Schachtman.
More Local News
A map of North Carolina, showing regions covered by the Healthy Opportunities Pilot
  1. Nonprofit leaders optimistic as funding is put into HOP and a New Hanover County care hub
  2. 2026 Summer 3-Day Pledge Drive
  3. State budget falls about $2 million short to cover NHCS salaries and bonuses
  4. New Hanover County could re-enter affordable housing sector, as a low-interest lender
  5. North Carolina Governor Josh Stein vetoes homeless camping ban
  6. North Carolina is now taking applications for boating infrastructure grants
  7. Who is on the NC Utilities Commission? How do they decide on Duke Energy’s rate hikes?
  8. Final impact report released for Wilmington's harbor dredging project
  9. New Hanover County's newest library opens this week
  10. State approved New Hanover County’s choice for elections director
  11. UNCW Upperman family pulling future scholarship funds over UNC System’s equality policy
  12. Sunday Edition: America at 250 — Red, White, and a Little Blue
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
Mock-up of North Chase Library
  1. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Northchase Library Opening
  2. Commentary: Freedom Ain’t Free - Jamir Jumoke
  3. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: 16th Annual Ocean City Jazz Festival
  4. Commentary: Freedom of Religion - Bob Thompson
  5. Commentary: First in Freedom: Gary Trawick
  6. Soup to Nuts Live! Featuring Brad Heller and the Fustics| On Air This Weekend
  7. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: An Evening with Natasha Yvette Williams
  8. Wilmington native Bianca Shaw on her musical journey and getting 'powerful female creatives' to the forefront
  9. Soup to Nuts Live! The Little Mercies
  10. Commentary: The American Revolutionary War & the Two Scotlands - Alan Sturrock
  11. New art gallery and supply store on Castle Street offers art for everybody
  12. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Summer at CAM
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
Attendees take photographs and admire Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam engine locomotive, during a stop in Philadelphia on July 5, 2026. As part of the celebration for America's 250th anniversary, the steam engine train is on tour for public display in multiple cities and states across the United States.
  1. The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S.
  2. With the white nationalist group Patriot Front, what you see is not what you get
  3. Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife
  4. Poor counties adjust to cuts in food stamp program
  5. Graham Platner makes it official in Maine, submitting paperwork to leave Senate race
  6. Utah judge now considering evidence against accused killer of Charlie Kirk
  7. Immigrants who were detained during fatal shooting in Houston dispute ICE's account
  8. Patriotic art gets the spotlight as NEA funding shifts. Cue 'The Ronald Reagan Overture'
  9. Houston neighbors started seeing more ICE agents around. Then came a fatal shooting.
  10. No internet, no screen time? FCC weighs cutting subsidy that lowers school internet bills
State News
Roy Watson, Jr., a vice president at Blue Cross NC, speaks Friday afternoon after the N.C. State Health Plan Board of Trustees voted to re-install the insurer as the plan's third party administrator beginning in 2028. State Treasurer Brad Briner said Blue Cross was a clear standout in response to the state's RFP.
  1. For NC State Health Plan members, Blue Cross NC is back in 2028
  2. Stokes planning board backs pause on data center development
  3. NC’s first full budget since 2023 reflects transformed health policy landscape
  4. Haitian immigrants with TPS get two-week extension to keep working legally
  5. North Carolina awards nearly $2.8 million to local libraries
  6. As extreme heat drives up power bills, more Charlotte families seek help
  7. NC State Health Plan raises premiums, offers new tiered benefits that could help members cut costs
  8. Grandfather Mountain hiking trail damaged by Helene reopens
  9. New law expands paid parental leave for teachers and state employees. Here's what we know so far
  10. Forsyth residents relying on crisis services for mental health, report shows
Soup to Nuts Live! The Little Mercies - July 19th, 2026
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