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The Wilmington Housing Authority has offered some clarification of its plans to raise rents on many of its units. The increases should have taken place over a decade ago, WHA said, and are necessary to remain in compliance with tax-credit regulations.
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The Newsroom
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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.
More Local News
- Wilmington advocates react to Avelo shuttering ILM base, cutting ties with ICE
- Ghost Bikes: Memorials to cyclists killed on the road
- NHCS board asks state for more EC funding, superintendent says that won't fix the district's financial issues
- Wilmington City Council unanimously opposes NCDOT's Independence Boulevard expansion project
- Pender County got scammed. Now what?
- City of Wilmington explores building a new homeless shelter
- Pender County manager shares new details about $650k scam
- Sunday Edition: Stories from the Year to Come
- Re-Education Nation: A Limited Series WHQR Podcast
- Re-Education Nation: Angie Smith Kahney on School Safety, Students' Mental Health, and the NHCS Sexual Assault Scandal
- Can you hunt elk in North Carolina?
- CBD, hemp, and other marijuana products may not be available in NC next year. Here’s why
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Commentary: Bob Thompson "Longfellow and the Bells"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Angel Major and Cas Hyman
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Marva Mapson Robinson, director of the Williston Alumni Community Choir
- Commentary: Gary Trawick "Say I Don’t Know"
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Alex Hill of City Ballet
- WHQR Now presents Tercel
- Holiday Programming 2025
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Meghan McDonald, education and outreach manager for the Wilmington Symphony
- "Upcycled and Deconstructed" Fourth Friday Reception
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dan Brawley, director of Cucalorus Film Festival
- WHQR Public Media Wins Six Broadcast Journalism Awards
- Heather Wilson and Ben Billingsley on the Cameron Art Museum's newest exhibitions
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- Influencer, White House welfare fraud claims are distorted, but the system has risks
- Two parents reflect on giving back after Camp Mystic tragedy
- NPR/Ipsos poll shows Americans doubt U.S. role as global moral leader
- State officials say they'll do their own probes of shootings by federal officers
- Six months later, the Texas Hill Country is still living with the flood
- U.S. Figure Skating Championships will determine who's going to the Olympics
- Frictions over investigations emerge after ICE agent fatally shoots Minneapolis woman
- National Park Service will void passes with stickers over Trump's face
- Poll: Fewer Americans see U.S. as moral leader. And, FBI takes over ICE shooting case
- Somber Minneapolis demonstrators protest fatal shooting of woman by ICE officer
State News
- Red light cameras to monitor select intersections in Greensboro
- U.S. House passes ACA subsidies, but hurdles still remain
- German Men's National soccer Team will make Winston-Salem home ahead of World Cup competition
- Guilford County welcomes new homeless services director
- In Helene's wake, NC's landslide hazard mapping program tries to become more useful for emergencies
- 'Traumatized': U.S. citizens say ICE officers detained, assaulted them in Salisbury, NC
- Hundreds protest in Greensboro following fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis
- Charlotte protest calls for accountability after ICE shooting of U.S. citizen
- High Point proposes 5-year plan to build and preserve 5,000 homes
- Data center proposal sparks backlash in Stokes County
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