New Hanover County’s updated residential density and infill guidelines are open for public comment. The guidelines aim to articulate the county's existing policies and to provide members of the planning board and board of commissioners with tools they can use when considering rezonings and special use permits. “The goal of this is to provide you with ...

Wilmington leaders will consider another lease in the city-owned Skyline Center this week. The city of Wilmington purchased the 12-story building at 929 N. Front St. last July for $68 million. The office building on the north end of downtown Wilmington was formerly owned by Thermo Fisher Scientific and home to Wilmington-based pharmaceutical research firm PPD. Follow ...

President Joe Biden visited Wilmington on Thursday afternoon to announce a $3 billion project to replace lead pipes and paint throughout the country, with $76 million going to North Carolina.  “The only way forward is to replace every lead service line that connects Americans who need water,” Biden said during his address to the couple hundred audience ...

Plans to widen 23rd Street will move forward following a vote of support from local leaders. Wilmington International Airport officials requested economic development funding from state transportation officials in March and have committed $1 million toward the road widening. Airport leaders say the project will improve traffic flow into the airport, align with other cap ...

President Joe Biden is slated to visit Wilmington today to announce $3 billion in funding to replace toxic lead pipes and deliver clean drinking water to communities nationwide, according to a White House release.   Biden’s announcement is planned to take place at the Wilmington Convention Center, with remarks beginning at 4:30 p.m. The event is not open to th ...

A study of a proposed passenger rail line between Wilmington and Raleigh recommends running the route through Goldsboro and offers new projections about the line’s cost and service areas. A Southeastern North Carolina Passenger Rail Feasibility Study draft released earlier this month provides a high-level overview of a proposed route between Wilmington and Raleigh ...

Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wilmington was stopped shortly before 7 p.m. because of the threat of severe weather. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was scheduled to give remarks at Aero Center on the Wilmington International Airport property at 7 p.m. But severe thunderstorms, including reports of hail, swept through the area, and Trump an ...

Plans for the sites of two former Wilmington fire stations are moving forward, following approvals from city leaders on Tuesday. Local nonprofit Leading into New Communities Inc. (LINC) secured a rezoning and special use permit on Tuesday to establish a boarding school on the site of a decommissioned Princess Place Drive fire station while Good Shepherd, a nonprofit tha ...

New Hanover County leaders approved more than $3.3 million in incentives Monday to help fund the expansion of an industrial park on a U.S. 421. When finished, the park could be “one of the largest of its kind in the state of North Carolina,” Scott Satterfield, CEO of Wilmington Business Development told New Hanover County’s Board of Commissioners on Mo ...

New Hanover County leaders are slated to consider more than $3.3 million in incentives next week for the addition of 10 buildings at an industrial park along U.S. 421. The new buildings proposed for the Wilmington Trade Center could add between $300 million to $400 million to the county’s property tax base and generate more than 2,000 new jobs for the area, a ...