The City of Wilmington will consider adopting a Vision Zero plan at its council meeting this week. But at a council agenda meeting, the effort to reduce traffic deaths to zero met with some pushback.

On Monday morning, UNCW announced it would “temporarily discontinue use of campus spirit rocks and pause freedom of expression events,” citing tensions on campus and online threats last week. Officials did not give a timeline for when it would ‘unpause’ freedom of expression events.

From this week's Sunday Edition: A memorial to Charlie Kirk, painted on one of UNCW’s ‘Spirit Rocks,’ became a flashpoint for political tensions on campus, and then spun out into a social media frenzy, online threats, and a chaotic three-hour hunt for a phantom gunman. Plus, unpacking the latest news on The Endowment.

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs. They produce tons of waste, alter the landscape, and present new environmental challenges. Environmental reporter David Boraks has more, in the first of four stories in WHQR's series "CAFO Country."

After 9:30 on Friday night, the Wilmington police department’s Crisis Negotiation Team and a line of police cars exited the gates of the UNCW campus, following an active shooter incident that was determined to be a false alarm.

On Friday morning, UNCW Chancellor Dr. Aswani Volety released a video addressing the public about a three-hour search for an alleged gunman or gunmen on campus yesterday evening, which officials now say was a “false alarm.”

Dr. Pamela Robinson grew up in Columbus County and eventually became a leader in education in Colorado Springs.

A memorial created as part of a vigil for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been a flashpoint for political tensions on UNCW’s campus this week, leading to online threats and heightened security. Chancellor Aswani Volety said he was "appalled" at a video of the memorial being painted over by protestors, adding that the university was taking all physical and online threats seriously.

UNCW's regional economist said the county's GDP is not heavily reliant on the most chaotic sectors: manufacturing and agriculture.

The Pender County commission addressed the shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk during Monday's meeting. Plus, Brunswick County considers another school bond, and how will proposed federal cuts to food stamps and Medicaid impact Columbus County? WHQR's Nikolai Mather breaks down this week's local government news.