Grace Vitaglione
Grace Vitaglione is a multimedia journalist, who recently graduated from American University. Grace is attracted to issues of inequity and her reporting has covered racial disparities in healthcare, immigration detention, and college culture. In the past, she has investigated ICE detainee deaths at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, worked on an award-winning investigative podcast, and produced student-led video stories.
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The Board of the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization awarded the money on Oct. 26 in grants from federal funds to organizations around the region for transportation projects, like pedestrian crosswalks and traffic lights. -
Three candidates are on the ballot this year for election to the New Hanover Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors. Here’s what you need to know about them and the position itself. -
Environmental activists decry wood pellet production as harmful to North Carolina forests, while the war in Ukraine has increased demand for this source of energy. -
During Tuesday’s city council meeting, Councilmembers Kevin Spears and Charlie Rivenbark butted heads over whether Rivenbark was involved with a potential rezoning. -
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity will build affordable housing units in three properties on the Northside of Wilmington, after city council voted unanimously to donate the land in their meeting Tuesday night. -
The U.S. District Court for Eastern North Carolina ruled late last month that the Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedure Act in removing seasonal limitations on hopper dredging projects, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center. -
Two contractors have been banned from doing work in North Carolina because they failed to do repairs after Hurricane Florence and scammed elderly customers in home repair schemes. -
The New Hanover County board of commissioners approved two proposals for affordable housing projects in the county during their October third meeting. -
The lower Cape Fear ranked in the top five of watersheds receiving the highest amounts of toxins in 2020, according to a new report from the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group, known as NCPIRG. -
Wilmington city council voted Tuesday not to join other local North Carolina governments in signing a public letter commenting on Duke Energy’s carbon plan. Instead, the council will send one of their own.
