Edward Hardin joined the U.S. Army in the summer of 1917 when he was 24 years old. Despite getting expelled from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fraternity pranks that involved laxative-laced hot dogs and cows inside buildings, the native Wilmingtonian earned his undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and a graduate degree in Pharmacy by 1914. Both before and after World War I, Edward worked as a pharmacist at his family’s business, Hardin Pharmacy.

The news of a well-organized band of protestors pulling down Silent Sam last week has launched another round of emotional debate over the handling of Confederate monuments. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt says the eyes of the nation are upon her institution, and that she and her Board of Trustees are now charged with finding a lawful, lasting way to protect the monument by November 15 th .

Horror stories abound of homeowners’ associations nitpicking over paint colors, dinging people for landscaping choices they never submitted for approval – even fining property owners to the point of bankruptcy.

Lauren Collins has investigated the precise number of roses that go into a bottle of Chanel No. 5. More recently, she covered the gender pay discrepancy scandal that has rocked the BBC and spurred new questions around salary secrecy and reporting requirements in the UK, Iceland, and other parts of the world. As a staff writer for The New Yorker , Lauren Collins lives in Europe with her French husband and two children. It was the evolution of her relationship with Olivier – two people with two

It’s not news that the Cape Fear region suffers from some of the highest numbers per capita of people addicted to heroin and opioids. In response to what’s now commonly “the opioid crisis”, law enforcement strategies have changed, with officers carrying the anti-overdose drug Naloxone and authorities looking to put more offenders into treatment instead of jail. At least one North Carolina advocacy group, NC Harm Reduction, passes out clean needles, doses of naloxone, and information to people

There are 18 states in the U.S. that the League of Women Voters calls Gerrymandering Trifecta states. That means state legislators draw their own district maps, they draw Congressional maps, and there is no citizen mechanism to change the process. Of those 18 states, 11 are in the South. One of them is North Carolina. Since North Carolina has become a focus for debates over partisan and racial gerrymandering, it’s axiomatic that Republicans are the current target for criticism. But their

North Carolina agriculture is facing a host of challenges. The Trump Administration has levied tariffs against many countries, more notably China, Mexico, the European Union, and Canada.

The stories of Wilmington -- from mythical tales surrounding Jacob’s Run, that underground passageway in Wilmington, to the legend of the woman buried sitting in a barrel of booze to the heroism of Abraham Galloway -- which are fact and which are fiction?

Rhiannon Giddens is a singer and songwriter. She plays the banjo and the fiddle. She’s a storyteller, activist, and musical historian. She’s also a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops -- inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

The U.S. House passed a resolution to affirm support for the work of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency – also known as ICE – on Wednesday. The non-binding resolution came in answer to a push by some Democratic lawmakers and progressive activists to abolish the Agency. Democrats in the Senate blocked the resolution the same day.