NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) –There’s a court program in New Hanover County that provides an alternative for veterans charged with low-level, non-violent offenses. WWAY spoke with District ...

Michael John Lavelle is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Holly Petteys. Lavelle was apprehended after fleeing police and self-inflicting stab wounds. Lavelle is ...

A Wilmington man has been sentenced in New Hanover County Superior Court in connection with a fatal 2022 shooting.

An man suspected of the February murder of Ramiel Sanders in Abilene was captured Wednesday in North Carolina, police said in ...

A former Davidson College worker accused of secretly filming in on-campus bathrooms faces new ... Court March 5 involving secret peeping charges in four cases, according to the county Clerk ...

House Bill 570, sponsored by New Hanover County Rep. Ted Davis ... would establish PFAS discharge limits and drinking water standards in North Carolina. That legislation, still working its way through ...

Anyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law ... in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the New Hanover County SWAT team, APD ...

Gender identity claims won't cost parents custody of their children, according to a bill still alive and moving on Tuesday from Judiciary 2 Committee. Parents Protection Act, also known as House Bill ...

Edition is a weekly newsletter from WHQR's News Director Benjamin Schachtman, featuring behind-the-scenes looks at our ...

WHQR News Director Benjamin Schachtman sits in on a coffee meeting between The Endowment and a Creekwood resident who wants ...

The elections board was hoping to add three new positions and get funding for three other part-time positions.