China’s ban on 24 types of trash imports is changing the recycling business and waste management in the United States. The new policy on what China will accept limits the type of plastic and unsorted paper recycling collectors are taking, while a new threshold for acceptable contamination sits at 0.5%.

Joe Breault, Mayor Pro Tem of the Town of Belville, is moving to Florida a little more than halfway through his second term as Commissioner.

A gunman shot and killed five newsroom employees June 28 th at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis. That tragedy, at a local, community paper which has been in business for nearly 300 years – yes, that’s older than the United States – has rattled newsrooms around the country.

If you have lived in the Cape Fear region for any length of time, you might recognize the name Harvard Jennings. From 1989 until 2010, he hosted and produced a weekday radio talk show that tackled local, national and international issues.

People who have disabilities, particularly physical ones, face what some social justice activists call “ableism”. Disability Research Scholar Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock defines the term as “a cultural discourse that stigmatizes and marginalizes bodies deemed not normal through medical diagnosis”.

The City of Wilmington reported overall historic crime lows last year. Crimes in Wilmington’s Central Business District, which used to have, according to Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous, a pretty bad reputation, have dropped since 2002 by about 75%.

When #METOO went viral last October, no one could have predicted how many women and men would add their voices to what has become the name of a movement.

By the year 2100, sea levels could rise three to six feet. That’s according to a study published in the scientific journal Nature just this month. One of the major contributors: ice melting in Antarctica.

Blockchain. It’s the platform that Bitcoin runs on. So what’s the basic premise? It’s a decentralized ledger system that keeps track of data points or “blocks” in real time. Advocates for the emerging platform say it allows for personal transactional control over information shared on the blockchain.

More than half of all waste that heads to the landfill in New Hanover County is food waste or some other compostable material. Local environmental management officials estimate the real number is between 65 and 70%.