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Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter died Monday at age 68. He was known for opening ground combat jobs to women and pushing the Pentagon to spend more money on technology.

On Friday afternoon, the New Hanover County Board of Elections voted to finalize the 2022 election results at the canvass — with one board member dissenting after citing concerns there was not sufficient documentation on mail-in absentee ballots.

The Biden administration says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be shielded from a lawsuit over his role in journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, angering human rights activist.

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

The annual defense bill up for a vote in the Senate addresses housing, pay and other quality of life issues for military members. It also drops a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

On November 10, 1898, an angry white mob led by prominent Wilmingtonians like Alfred Moore Waddell, Hugh MacRae, George Rountree, and J. Allen Taylor,…

You can still enjoy the outdoors this summer despite the scorching weather, if you're smart about it. Here's what to watch out for and how to stay safe.

Four of the people injured were teenagers. "It's just another case of wanton and senseless violence that we can't get our brains around," the city's police commissioner said.

Pat McCrory says he was labeled as one of North Carolina’s most conservative governors. But how’s now joined the centrist political coalition known as “No Labels," a third party that hopes to capitalize on the perceived dissatisfaction with both Trump and Biden as presumptive presidential candidates.

Years of work by New Hanover County to deliver the “very best evidence-based treatment program” culminated in the recent opening of The Healing Place. Now, the facility says it is recovery housing, not a treatment center, despite advertising itself as the latter (and despite New Hanover County and others referring to its services as treatment). Officials call the distinction ‘semantics,’ but it could mean the difference in millions of dollars in opioid settlement funding — and the health outcomes of hundreds, even thousands, of people seeking help for addiction.