Latest Local News
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has prepared and submitted a human health risk assessment of 1,4-dioxane in drinking water, as directed by the General Assembly.
The Newsroom
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On this episode, Ben Schachtman and Rachel Keith sit down with John Biewen and Michael Betts, writers and co-hosts of Echoes of a Coup — the sixth season of the Scene on Radio podcast from Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. The five-part series takes a deep dive into Wilmington’s 1898 coup and massacre.
More Local News
- Checking the record: NCDEQ never held Chemours accountable for missing its 'barrier wall' deadline
- CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
- Former CFCC department chair: 'Who's behind the wheel?'
- CFCC employees cited pressure to fabricate information prior to accreditation warning, compliance staff 'nonrenewed'
- A new technology to remove PFAS from drinking water is undergoing a pilot in Wilmington
- The question of Master's pay for North Carolina teachers
- CFPUA could be a guide for how utilities can meet the EPA's new drinking water standards
- Three employees resign following Elizabeth Craver's reinstatement as Pender County Clerk of Court
- For a second year, WFD says mental health support is its top priority
- Recently published study looks at healthcare and race, including in North Carolina
- The Dive: The New Hanover County budget shortfall we aren't talking about much
- CFR: WFD's budget request; innovation in housing solutions
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- STNL! Featuring: The Benny Hill Ensemble
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Rissi Palmer and September Krueger
- Comedian Meghan Cook on her origins in stand-up, and advice for aspiring comics
- Cape Fear Conversations: Health Equity
- Docutime Film Festival celebrates its 20th year
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Grahamland Amusements
- Cinematique Presents: The Beast
- Cinematique Presents: Problemista
- Cinematique Presents: Wicked Little Letters
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Dorothy Gillespie documentary
- Robert Bellamy, aka ScaleHamHawk da Poet, talks about his work, his muse, and his name
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Madafo Day
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we look at some red flags that were apparently overlooked ahead of a massive fire at a construction in Charlotte, the increasing number of partisan Boards of Education, and the ongoing case against two Asheville journalists who were arrested while covering a police raid on a homeless encampment.
National News
- Biden says he supports the right to protest but denounces 'chaos' and hate speech
- The U.S. may be missing human cases of bird flu, scientists say
- NYC mayor defends police clearing Columbia's pro-Palestinian encampment, building
- Arizona legislature votes to repeal the state's Civil War-era ban on abortion
- Who will pay to replace Baltimore's Key Bridge? The legal battle has already begun
- Amazon, Target and other retailers pull weighted infant sleepwear over safety fears
- Indiana has its first competitive primary race for governor in 2 decades
- Morning news brief
- Governor declares state of emergency for West Virginia's higher education system
- Pregant women in some states aren't permitted to legally finalize divorces
State News
- Bittersweet joy as Methodists in Charlotte repeal LGBTQ bans
- NC voucher expansion debate highlights starkly different approaches to education spending
- UNC faculty discuss next steps following protests on campus
- NC Senate committee votes to double funding for private school vouchers
- Fact Check: Attack ad accuses GOP congressional candidate of being attorney for Biden
- UNC-Chapel Hill protests disperse after intense Tuesday with 30 arrests
- 'It's bad all around': Charlotte mourns deadliest shooting of law officers in city history
- Charlotte filmmaker explores the history and impact of climate change in Black communities in the South
- Controversial immigration bill resurfaces at NC legislature
- Updates: 4th officer killed has been identified, police no longer searching for 2nd shooter