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On Monday, New Hanover County announced its new emergency alert system for residents to stay informed and prepared for all emergencies.
The Newsroom
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The affordable housing crisis is national in scope, but it’s uniquely painful in the South because of low wages and surging demand. So what are some creative solutions to this rapidly growing and intractable problem? Backyard cottages? Flipping hotels into rental housing? Or building out job training programs? We asked smart people in the housing space what they consider the most effective strategies to improve housing with help from the New Hanover Community Endowment.
More Local News
- CFR: The Wilmington crime lab lawsuit updates
- Leland town council to vote on new budget in two weeks
- A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
- Editor's Note: Questions about Woody White's rebuke of DEI elicit muted responses, and a little snark
- DEQ submits Human Health Risk Assessment on 1,4-Dioxane
- National Bike Month: Vision Zero, and a new tool evaluates media coverage of bicycle and pedestrian deaths
- Nearly every house in Wilmington could be allowed an ADU starting in May
- 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
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Little Women
- 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
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, we have Ben join us to revisit the Wilmington Crime Lab lawsuit.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we dig into the complicated world of cannabanoids and drug laws. Plus, the latest on the civil suit filed by the former director of the drug lab once run by the Wilmington Police Department, and a trip down the rabbit hole of North Carolina's notoriously opaque Grand Jury system.
National News
- Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates are both getting their due from their home state
- Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?
- Oregon community reduces planet-warming pollution by building energy efficiently
- Archive of Japanese Americans detained in internment camps is available online
- Philly is among cities switching tactics on how to address addiction and homelessness
- How a U.S. Customs and Border Protection veteran sees his agency's mission
- 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love
- Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles
- Why these college students say they aren't participating in protests
- Is this some kind of joke? A school facing shortages starts teaching standup comedy
State News
- After years of delays, NC voter ID trial begins in Winston-Salem
- NC charter board votes to cut public money for financially troubled Kinston K-8 school
- Whooping cough cases keep rising in Henderson County, now at 70
- UNC faculty call on administration to lift punishments for student protesters
- DPI at odds with education gaming company with ties to GOP
- Native American tribes across the U.S. attend graduation feather ceremony in North Carolina
- BPR Weekly News Round-Up: Buncombe Co. budget, Malvern Hills pool, Indigenous justice
- Slavery by another name: New NC historical marker acknowledges post-Civil War convict laborers
- There's still a final challenge to NC's photo ID voting law. The federal trial starts Monday
- NC Republican congressional candidate drops out just days before runoff election