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On today’s show, we’re looking back at the year that was 2025 with my colleagues, Rachel Keith, Aaleah McConnell, Kelly Kenoyer, and Nikolai Mather. From the local impacts of DOGE and the Trump Administration to the struggles over education funding, from rural reporting to community engagement, we’ll recap the toughest, most rewarding, and some of the most fun stories of the year.

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.

A provision in the law that reopened the federal government could shutter the multi-billion-dollar hemp industry. Here's an explainer from NC Local.

Employees have been picketing the Market Street franchise location in hopes of bringing Starbucks corporate officials to the bargaining table.

After a dip during the Covid-19 pandemic, eviction filings have rebounded — with a vengeance.

Tenants got the letters by mail, with shocking news: they'll see their rents double or even triple next year.

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.

Doors opened for the newly designed Main Library in Downtown Wilmington in early October, and it’s proving to be an anchor of cultural resources, education, and exploration. There's one program in particular that helps locals branch out of their linguistic comfort zones.

A longtime Wilmington entrepreneur is launching a new chamber of commerce focused on minority-owned businesses. WHQR’s Ben Schachtman has more.

On Monday, December 5, Alderman Elementary teaching assistant Minnie Clark was sent a termination letter for “misconduct and failure to follow NHCS policies.”