Plans to widen 23rd Street will move forward with newly committed funding from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Wilmington International Airport officials requested economic development funding from state transportation officials in March and have committed $1 million toward the road widening. Airport leaders say the project will improve traffic flow int ...

President Joe Biden is slated to visit Wilmington today to announce $3 billion in funding to replace toxic lead pipes and deliver clean drinking water to communities nationwide, according to a White House release.   Biden’s announcement is planned to take place at the Wilmington Convention Center, with remarks beginning at 4:30 p.m. The event is not open to th ...

A study of a proposed passenger rail line between Wilmington and Raleigh recommends running the route through Goldsboro and offers new projections about the line’s cost and service areas. A Southeastern North Carolina Passenger Rail Feasibility Study draft released earlier this month provides a high-level overview of a proposed route between Wilmington and Raleigh ...

Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wilmington was stopped shortly before 7 p.m. because of the threat of severe weather. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was scheduled to give remarks at Aero Center on the Wilmington International Airport property at 7 p.m. But severe thunderstorms, including reports of hail, swept through the area, and Trump an ...

Plans for the sites of two former Wilmington fire stations are moving forward, following approvals from city leaders on Tuesday. Local nonprofit Leading into New Communities Inc. (LINC) secured a rezoning and special use permit on Tuesday to establish a boarding school on the site of a decommissioned Princess Place Drive fire station while Good Shepherd, a nonprofit tha ...

New Hanover County leaders approved more than $3.3 million in incentives Monday to help fund the expansion of an industrial park on a U.S. 421. When finished, the park could be “one of the largest of its kind in the state of North Carolina,” Scott Satterfield, CEO of Wilmington Business Development told New Hanover County’s Board of Commissioners on Mo ...

New Hanover County leaders are slated to consider more than $3.3 million in incentives next week for the addition of 10 buildings at an industrial park along U.S. 421. The new buildings proposed for the Wilmington Trade Center could add between $300 million to $400 million to the county’s property tax base and generate more than 2,000 new jobs for the area, a ...

In a split vote Tuesday, the Carolina Beach Town Council voted down a request to bring another property into the town’s central business district, which some council members said could create a “slippery slope” of expansion for the business district. STLNC LLC, the limited liability company that owns the roughly 0.17-acre lot at 204 Harper Ave., submit ...

Two months after the resignation of its inaugural leader, the New Hanover Community Endowment announced Monday it has selected a firm to guide the search for a new president and CEO. North Carolina-based moss+ross will guide the search for the endowment’s next president and chief executive officer, according to a news release issued Monday. William Buster, th ...

A rezoning approved by the Wilmington City Council on Tuesday will allow plans for 30 townhomes to move forward on two parcels of land along North Kerr Avenue. In 2022, Wilmington leaders approved a rezoning for a 15-unit townhome project at 206 N. Kerr Ave. Following that initial rezoning, the owner of an adjacent lot at 204 N. Kerr Ave. decided to join in on the proje ...