Wilmington is searching for a new police chief after Chief Donny Williams announced his retirement in January 2025. The city hired the Police Executive Research Forum to conduct a national search ...

Wawa has submitted plans for a new Wilmington location at 5328 Oleander Drive after withdrawing a previous proposal for a nearby site. The new proposed location is near Jungle Rapids Family Fun ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (WSO) has named its new music director and conductor. Peter Askim will take over as the WSO Music Director and Conductor on June 1 and lead ...

Protesters lined DuPont Highway outside of Wilmington Airport near New Castle on April 19, demanding Avelo Airlines ground its deportation flights. Avelo Airlines is the only airline that flies ...

Tanis Priddle, now a senior at Stanford University, has been named one of the top 30 senior engineering students in the ...

The Wilmington City Council reviewed a proposal restricting marijuana businesses to the city's east side with limited Riverfront exceptions. A 3% local tax on marijuana sales, in addition to the ...

I think it's Mamaw. They call her something like being like their grandmother."Wilmington police said the 55-year-old Blazer was shot and killed by her son, Kyler Whitt.Investigators said the 33 ...

The Wilmington University community sprang into action to support The Den, WilmU’s food pantry, during the Breakfast With the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Wilmington City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night opposing recently proposed state legislation that would restrict local governments’ say in ...

Boston College has established the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to track efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution-related diseases that account for an estimated 9 million ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — This month makes 234 years since our nation’s first president came to town. Although Wilmington has been visited by more than a dozen Commander in Chief’s since ...

Dr. Coreen (Corey) Cockerill will become Wilmington College’s first inaugurated female president during an investiture ceremony on Tuesday (April 22). The inauguration event will be livestreamed to ...