New Hanover County Sheriff's Office

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.

For victims of domestic violence, recent stay-at-home orders make it more challenging to report abuse. And while it’s difficult to measure the impact of…

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 marked nine days since the death of George Floyd -- an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis…

This past weekend’s shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas have initiated a lot of discussion -- even amongst local law enforcement agencies in the…