Food waste and other organic material accounts for more than half of New Hanover County’s landfill stream. That’s why a new food waste collection program starts July 1 st .

New Jersey decided late last year on a regulatory first: to establish stringent standards for two types of perfluorochemicals in their environment. According to a November press release , the state’s Department of Environmental Protection is the first to set maximum contaminant levels for perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, and perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA. GenX is one of more than a dozen similar compounds found in the Cape Fear River, the source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of

Teachers held walkouts this year in at least six states: West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina. The reason often cited in news headlines is salary. But take a deeper dive, and you hear concerns about pension funds, funding for K-12 curriculum, and intangibles – like the lack of respect for the profession.

Coyotes, raccoons, and foxes are synurbizing. That’s what researchers call the animals’ adaptive behavior when their natural habitat shrinks due to urban development. A recent study out of Penn State shows white-tailed deer fawns have better chances of survival in mixed-cover areas -- a combination of agricultural or landscaped areas and forests versus forests. In forests alone, the average survival to six months of age was about 41 percent.

Words On Bathroom Walls is, so far this fiscal year, the only film to take advantage of North Carolina industry incentives. Five Home Depot commercials also claimed some state grant money over the last fiscal year. While there are efforts underway in Raleigh to sweeten the pot and lure made-for-TV movies and smaller film projects, the industry in Wilmington is not even a shadow of its former self.

2018 is likely to see normal to slightly above-normal storm Atlantic hurricane activity. That's according to the newly-released forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The breakdown looks like this: 10-16 named storms; 5-9 may become hurricanes. Of those, one to four could become major hurricanes.

Joshua Johnson is the Host of 1A, the successor to the long-running and hugely popular Diane Rehm show. Before his move to the nation’s capitol, he lived in San Francisco, where he served as KQED’s morning newscaster.

Inmates killed five North Carolina prison workers in 2017. Four worked as correctional officers; one as a maintenance mechanic. Violent assaults on officers have increased significantly from previous years, according to the Associated Press.

Access to mental health resources is one of six major unmet needs in the Cape Fear region. That’s according to New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s 2016 Community Needs Assessment Survey, which examines New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender Counties. Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death in southeastern North Carolina – despite the fact that it’s not in the top 10 statewide.

The May 2018 primary is now over, and the candidates who made it through this elimination round now head to the ballot for the November general election.