It was 2013 that Dr. William Johnstone came to work as a Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. It didn’t take long for him to see the devastating consequences from the opioid epidemic firsthand – although back then, the community was not yet talking about it. One hospital administrator tells WHQR the numbers of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome went from about 35 in 2010 to between 120 to 140 by 2016. Officials expect

Alligator hunting in North Carolina is now legal in North Carolina after a 44-year ban. Last October, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission updated its Alligator Management Plan and defined a potential hunting season: from September 1 to October 1.

The City of Wilmington and New Hanover County recently approved a financial incentive package worth $580,000 for National Gypsum. The Cape Fear region is competing with Tampa for the company’s business.

It was an expedition into the Mayan Mountains in 2005 which led Jamie Rotenberg to the Bladen Nature Reserve in Belize where he spotted a juvenile harpy eagle. More than five years later, he discovered a harpy eagle nest – creatures once thought to be extinct.

North Carolina added more than 10,000 jobs in the tech sector last year alone. That makes it seventh in the nation for job growth, according to a study by Computing Technology Industry Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Imagine growing up in a world during a time in which it’s prudent to hide the fact that you’re Jewish because you might be barred from common public spaces or forced to attend schools that keep you apart from non-Jewish Germans.

When kids get into trouble, when they fail in school, and turn to destructive paths seeking power, money, and a sense of belonging, it’s easy to dismiss the child as a “bad kid”, write him off, cope with his presence in school, keep him out of the way of the students who are succeeding, wait it out until he’s no longer there.

April 4 th , 2018 marks the 50 th Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The news of King's murder reverberated around the world, but the loss for students, parents, and staff at Williston Senior High School in Wilmington was particularly wrenching. Dr. King had planned to make a speech at the only all-black high school in the segregated New Hanover County School system but instead he chose to stay in Tennessee to support a sanitation workers strike. The Reverend who

Research shows that minority students are more likely to face disciplinary action in school than white students. When students face more detentions, suspensions, and expulsions from school than their white counterparts, we also see more children of color in juvenile and criminal courts. That phenomenon is often called the school-to-prison pipeline.

The debate on firearms continues at the local, state, and national levels. As informed citizens, we look for debates based on logic and reason; but with more polarizing issues, it’s worth taking a look at the personal experiences that influence perceptions and resulting policy positions. On this edition of CoastLine, we welcome two guests to the mic, one at a time, to express their position on the gun rights or reform issue – and secondly, to let us into their world a little bit. We explore