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Elk grazing at the Oconaluftee Visitor's Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Local
Can you hunt elk in North Carolina?
Lilly Knoepp, NC Local
After years of work to conserve the elk, the population has reached a high enough number for lawmakers to consider lifting the hunting ban. NC Local explains.
Serious changes are coming to federal laws around hemp products.
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Local
CBD, hemp and other marijuana products may not be available in NC next year. Here’s why
Ben McNeely, NC Local
Employees at the Market Street Starbucks location in Wilmington walked off the job in support of a nationwide strike.
Nikolai Mather/WHQR
Local
Wilmington's only unionized Starbucks joins nationwide strike
Nikolai Mather
The Newsroom
  • Invisible Homelessness: Working and unhoused in America
    There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of unhoused families who go uncounted in New Hanover County each year. Many of them work, often full-time jobs, while living in motels, cars, or bouncing from couch to couch. Today's episode digs into those problems, and what could be done for them.
More Local News
  1. Re-Education Nation: Sandhills Region Teacher of the Year Anthony Martin on Education Politics, School Funding, and CTE
  2. Evictions have risen to their highest rate in 13 years. Housing costs are likely to blame.
  3. Wilmington Housing Authority set to raise rents on 500+ apartments next year
  4. How one New Hanover County library program is helping residents overcome language barriers
  5. Wilmington Minority Chamber of Commerce launches to help support local businesses
  6. Wilmington officials cut ribbon on Fifth Avenue's new bike lane
  7. Alderman Elementary teaching assistant terminated after altercation with student
  8. With costs a growing worry for Americans, Trump seeks to defend his economic record
  9. Re-Education Nation: NHCS Board Member Tim Merrick talks funding, censure
  10. Pender County loses hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud scheme
  11. Still afloat: NC ferry system gets boost but challenges remain
  12. Sunday Edition: No More Moonshots?
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
  1. Commentary: Bob Thompson "Longfellow and the Bells"
  2. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Susan Habas, director of the Thalian Association
  3. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Marva Mapson Robinson, director of the Williston Alumni Community Choir
  4. Commentary: Gary Trawick "Say I Don’t Know"
  5. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Alex Hill of City Ballet
  6. WHQR Now presents Tercel
  7. Holiday Programming 2025
  8. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Meghan McDonald, education and outreach manager for the Wilmington Symphony
  9. "Upcycled and Deconstructed" Fourth Friday Reception
  10. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dan Brawley, director of Cucalorus Film Festival
  11. WHQR Public Media Wins Six Broadcast Journalism Awards
  12. Heather Wilson and Ben Billingsley on the Cameron Art Museum's newest exhibitions
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
  1. What you need to know about massive changes to the federal student loan system
  2. 2025 was a year of chaos for groups that help poor people
  3. Federal appeals court judge is accused of bullying her clerks
  4. Thousands watch livestream of Maine family's food pantry for deer
  5. North Carolina residents affected by Hurricane Helene still waiting for aid from FEMA
  6. Non-U.S. residents will soon have to pay $100 surcharge to enter 11 national parks
  7. The Navy is struggling to build ships
  8. Midair collision involving 2 helicopters in New Jersey leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
  9. Many farmers are going into 2026 on the brink
  10. New report reveals the role of U.S. jets in global drug trafficking
State News
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 12, 2024.
  1. North Carolina awarded $213 million for rural health initiatives
  2. Greensboro continues support for displaced residents of West Market Street complex
  3. Duke Energy seeks federal review for potential Belews Creek nuclear site
  4. 211 acres of Randolph County forest now permanently protected
  5. Innovation Quarter continues to grow with Phase II of development
  6. NC, 11 other states win lawsuit against FEMA over emergency preparedness grants
  7. Greensboro to end free parking in some downtown lots in 2026
  8. Piedmont Land Conservancy looks back on 2025 projects
  9. Nonprofit hosts New Year’s Day Hanging Rock hike for young adults affected by serious illness
  10. Funeral service for Gov. Jim Hunt held in Wilson
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