New Hanover County Commission

The City of Wilmington-New Hanover County joint committee met on Tuesday to discuss how to allocate about $7 million of the opioid settlement money. The topics of discussion ranged from questions over the efficacy of the D.A.R.E program, the latest county statistics on the crisis, and the presence of illicit drug markets.

In New Hanover County’s Community Building Plan, there is $1.1 million in funding for community resource coordinators who’ll operate inside schools — and $1.9 million for additional school resource officers or SROs. WHQR asked about these investments — and how the county will track their progress.

After some political drama that almost took it off the table, a housing bond for New Hanover County is now back in the realm of possibility.

It’s been a busy week in local government. New Hanover County passed a nearly half-billion dollar budget after a contentious meeting. The next morning, county and Wilmington officials hashed out details of a housing bond and a sales tax to support public transportation. WHQR’s Ben Schachtman and Kelly Kenoyer discuss.

Affordable housing and public transportation dominated the discussion at the Tuesday, April 27 joint meeting between Wilmington City Council and New Hanover County. The biggest news of the day: WAVE transit won’t lose any bus lines this summer — and could actually expand its operations down the road.

New Hanover County’s Board of Commissioners has five seats. Each member is elected to a staggered, four-year term. In 2020, there are three open seats.Two…

It was a surprise to Wave Transit officials and to some fellow Commissioners when Julia Olson-Boseman, Vice Chair of the New Hanover County Board, made a…

New Hanover County’s Board of Commissioners has three open seats this year. Here are the three Republicans vying for those spots – which carry four-year…

There are seven Republicans hoping to win one of three spots on the November ballot for New Hanover County Board of Commissioners. One of those…

Patricia Kusek is running for one of three seats in the Republican primary for New Hanover County Commissioner. As Chair of the Cape Fear Public Utility…