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SEA-TECH Spark leader Sara Toothman and her student Temple Olski in the lab.
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SparkNC has four labs in New Hanover County, hopes to continue expansion across NC
Rachel Keith
SparkNC is a non-profit that provides students with knowledge and skills for the technology industry. New Hanover County has four ‘Spark’ Labs at SEA-TECH High School, Communities in Schools of Cape Fear, Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern North Carolina, and New Hanover High, whose official ribbon cutting is slated for next month.
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Local
As NC reports more measles cases, how can you protect yourself?
Will Michaels, NC Local
The Creekwood neighborhood in Wilmington.
Benjamin Schachtman
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New details from WHA indicate rent hikes will mostly hit Creekwood
Kelly Kenoyer
The Newsroom
  • New Year's Special Edition: The WHQR news team looks back at 2025
    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.
More Local News
  1. Re-Education Nation: Ernie Gaskins on Rural Students Leaving Home, Respect Between Students and Teachers, and Post-Secondary Education
  2. Grand jury issues numerous indictments against alleged Southport shooter Nigel Edge
  3. Wilmington City Council Roundup: New shelter plans, safer cargo district, and more
  4. Wilmington advocates react to Avelo shuttering ILM base, cutting ties with ICE
  5. Ghost Bikes: Memorials to cyclists killed on the road
  6. NHCS board asks state for more EC funding, superintendent says that won't fix the district's financial issues
  7. Wilmington City Council unanimously opposes NCDOT's Independence Boulevard expansion project
  8. Pender County got scammed. Now what?
  9. City of Wilmington explores building a new homeless shelter
  10. Pender County manager shares new details about $650k scam
  11. Sunday Edition: Stories from the Year to Come
  12. Re-Education Nation: A Limited Series WHQR Podcast
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
  1. "Unique: A Rachard McIntyre Retrospective" Fourth Friday Reception
  2. Commentary: Gary Trawick
  3. Commentary: Bob Thompson "Longfellow and the Bells"
  4. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Angel Major and Cas Hyman
  5. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Marva Mapson Robinson, director of the Williston Alumni Community Choir
  6. Commentary: Gary Trawick "Say I Don’t Know"
  7. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Alex Hill of City Ballet
  8. WHQR Now presents Tercel
  9. Holiday Programming 2025
  10. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Meghan McDonald, education and outreach manager for the Wilmington Symphony
  11. "Upcycled and Deconstructed" Fourth Friday Reception
  12. Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dan Brawley, director of Cucalorus Film Festival
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
  1. Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
  2. New analysis on U.S. economy. And, MN prosecutors quit over DOJ probe into Good widow
  3. The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
  4. Former federal prosecutor talks about Minnesota ICE shooting probe and Trump's DOJ
  5. How the feud between Trump and Minnesota is impacting the probe into the ICE shooting
  6. Unhoused women on Skid Row face dire health outcomes. This doctor wants to change that
  7. NASA set to bring astronaut (and the rest of Crew-11) home early for medical reasons
  8. Morning news brief
  9. A free program erased medical debt for millions of North Carolina residents
  10. Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies
State News
A welcome sign stands outside of the Holcomb Gate on Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Jan. 8, 2008. MCB Camp Lejeune has been noted as the Home of the Expeditionary Forces in Readiness; directly supporting the II Marine Expeditionary Force.
  1. One person dead after security incident at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
  2. Widow of Camp Lejeune Marine: Battle with U.S. government over compensation for toxic water exposure is "cruel"
  3. NC Board of Elections approves Guilford County early voting sites, despite concerns
  4. Cone Health expands its urgent care in Burlington
  5. New work requirements for Medicaid, SNAP will cost NC millions
  6. Elon University opening full-time law school at Queens University as institutions merge
  7. New outdoor venues are coming this year to two areas devastated by Helene floodwaters
  8. Randolph commissioners could vote on new bylaws for dissolved library board next month
  9. Search for justice for Camp Lejeune water contamination continues for Marine stationed at base in 1980s
  10. Stokes County approves data center rezoning after heated meeting
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