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Plans for coping with Wilmington’s growing traffic concern

Tyler Newman, Staff Writer • October 29, 2017

Multiple cars line the middle turn lane of South College Road in Wilmington. Vehicles, trucks, buses and motorbikes whiz past on the right, occasionally halting for a distant traffic signal. For minutes,...

UNCW professor leads master class at North Carolina Writers’ Network conference

Maddie Driggers, Assistant Lifestyles Editor • October 24, 2017

Wilmington is set to host over 200 writers, scholars and lovers of literature as the North Carolina Writers' Network hosts its fall conference in Wrightsville Beach next weekend. One of UNCW’s own, Nina...

Making Friday nights easier: UNCW graduate starts BarMembership

Vanessa Dickerson, Staff Writer • October 19, 2017

Say goodbye to holding a plethora of membership cards in your wallet when going out in Wilmington, all thanks to UNC-Wilmington Communication Studies graduate Brandon Noel. Noel, who graduated in 2002,...

One year on, Hurricane Matthew is still drowning communities with dilemmas

Tyler Newman, Staff Writer • October 18, 2017

One year ago, entire towns across North Carolina sat underwater. Hurricane Matthew swept across the state in October 2016, drowning homes and businesses with record level floodwaters. Over the course...

State Republicans overrule veto by Gov. Cooper on GenX clean-up

Casey McAnarney, Editor-in-Chief • October 15, 2017

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature have overruled Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill on Thursday, Sept. 21, that North Carolina representatives formulated in response to the pollution of the...

Grocery growth and climbing competition in the Cape Fear

Tyler Newman, Staff Writer • October 12, 2017

No one seemed to have expected the grocery wars to come to the Cape Fear region as soon as it did. With the population boom well underway throughout the Wilmington metro and surrounding counties, grocery...

New North Carolina artifacts unearthed in search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Tyler Newman, Staff Writer • October 11, 2017

BERTIE COUNTY, N.C. – On a tract of land along the banks of the Albemarle Sound lies a site containing new artifacts that may relate to the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. Dubbed “Site X” by local...

Hurricane Irma winds down, Jose on its tail

Martin Brown, Contributing Writer • September 13, 2017

Early Monday morning, Hurricane Irma weakened to a Category 1 storm, but not before causing significant damage that has resulted in at least 61 deaths across the Caribbean and the Southeast, according...

Hurricane Irma continues to grow, could pose threat to the East Coast

Casey McAnarney, Editor in Chief • September 4, 2017

Hurricane Irma has grown into a Category Five hurricane and is projected to continue its growth as it makes its way through the Atlantic, possibly colliding with either the East Coast or southern Florida,...

Tropical storm watch issued for New Hanover County region

Meredith Hoffman, Assistant News Editor • August 28, 2017

Wilmington, N.C. – A tropical storm watch has been issued for inland New Hanover and surrounding counties. The National Weather Service updated the details of the tropical storm watch at 7:38 p.m. Aug....

Next Steps: Now that we know about the presence of GenX in the Cape Fear River

Kristen Burgess, Staff Writer • July 11, 2017

In the wake of a Star News story that broke the information of the presence of a potentially harmful chemical, GenX, in the Cape Fear River, fifteen panelists gathered on the stage of UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium...

Progress in Poverty Through Education

Charlotte Smith, Contributing Writer • April 6, 2017

Almost one out of every four people in Wilmington live below the poverty line, and this affects almost every neighborhood in the community, said the mayor of Wilmington at the Sixth Annual Poverty Symposium...