Last week, UNCW Swimming and Diving and the Wilmington Swim Academy finished their series of free swim lessons. The volunteer-driven program is designed to teach younger kids a crucial skill for living in a coastal community.

Launched in Scandinavia thirty years ago, Vision Zero is an ambitious program to eliminate traffic-related deaths of pedestrians and bicyclists. Numerous U.S. cities later joined, but many have struggled to meet their goals. Now, Wilmington is implementing its own Vision Zero program.

How a controversial bankruptcy strategy known as the Texas two-step froze thousands of civil lawsuits and left terminal cancer victims fighting for their day in court.

A devastating combination of federal funding cuts, eligibility rollbacks, and rising inflation has pushed food insecurity in central and eastern North Carolina to its highest level in a generation, forcing local non-profit pantries to operate beyond capacity as nearly 630,000 residents—including one in five children—struggle to access their next meal.