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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has released new guidance about consuming certain types of fish from parts of the lower Cape Fear River.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is recommending limits on consumption of certain freshwater fish from the middle and lower Cape Fear River based on concerns about exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) found in fish sampled from that area.
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 7:41 am
By: ENC NOW
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A bipartisan bill to address PFAS pollution would require polluters like Chemours to reimburse public water systems for cleanup, abatement, and technology needs
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Inman is driven toward his inevitable purpose in this love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War in Virginia and North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 11:05 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Bladen County Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser approved a consent order Monday holding the Chemours chemical manufacturer accountable for release of GenX and other PFAS emerging contaminants which have polluted the Cape Fear River Basin and surrounding groundwater.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hurricane Florence made landfall between Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach as a Category 1 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and plowed through Brunswick County, NC and then into Horry County, SC, eventually downgraded to a strong tropical Storm.
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2018 @ 5:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence is affecting a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently near to making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and projected to skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane
Published: Saturday, September 15th, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence is affecting a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently near to making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, and projected to skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2018 @ 7:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence will affect a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane.
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2018 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence will affect a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane.
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 6:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence will affect a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane.
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 12:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hurricane Florence will affect a wide swath of coastal residents in North and South Carolina, currently making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, skirting Brunswick County, NC and then Horry County, SC as a Cat 1 hurricane.
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 7:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What could possibly be more important than knowing that the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink is safe? Public safety is one of the major functions of government
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 11:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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House Republicans beat back several attempts Wednesday by Democrats to expand the regulatory scope of a bill dealing with the GenX contaminant dumped into the lower Cape Fear River region, as the measure passed 116-0.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2018 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators voted to override two of Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes Thursday. They addressed a key piece of a third vetoed bill through a local measure that avoids the governor's scrutiny.
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 9:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that devotes state funding to address the controversial chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River, setting up a political war of words with legislative leaders
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 3:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has given a high political profile to the discharge of the GenX chemical compound into the Cape Fear River
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State senators are asking Gov. Roy Cooper's administration to answer more than 20 questions in the next five days, as they consider his request for an extra $2.58 million to deal with concerns about a chemical discharge in the Cape Fear River
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Miss Inez Sheppard, a former resident of Washington, died Tuesday, October 19, 2016 at Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 2:31 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Philip Ray Anderson, Jr., age 55, a resident of Wilmington N.C. and a former resident of Washington died Thursday June 9, 2016 at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Wilmington
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2016 @ 10:27 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory helped kick off construction of the new State Employees' Credit Union Memorial Walkway today at the USS North Carolina Battleship
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 5:31 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Mrs. Dena Van Gyzen Van Dyk, age 98, a former resident of Beaufort County, N.C. and Washington County, N.C. died Monday, May 2, 2016 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Wilmington, N.C
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 11:16 am
By: Announcements
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 7:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Four-year universities in the United States are gaining a reputation for forcing left wing viewpoints on their students. Blatant examples of indoctrination such as the University of Delaware's residential life program often attract a great deal of attention when exposed.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A poet and writer of many short stories, including the ones using the "Flim Flam Yarn" title, Guy Owen was launched into fame with comical and popular The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As reported in The Fayetteville Observer back in March: From 2007 to 2014...$421 million [was spent in the Cape Fear region] on solar projects. In the first 70 days of 2015, Dallas-based Principal Solar announced plans to tack on another $325 million worth of facilities in Cumberland and Bladen...
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. William Franklin "Bill" Roach, age 83, a resident of 222 Swan Point Dr., Washington, formerly of 552 Crabtree Rd., Belhaven, died Thursday May 7, 2015 at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Life Center in Bolivia, NC.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 4:32 pm
By: Announcements
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Water, water everywhere and the cradle of much of North Carolina's rich history.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Water, water everywhere and the cradle of much of North Carolina's rich history.
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 10:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As it grows colder, and as we step gingerly into winter, I recall one of the hottest days of the summer, when I explored the counties of Pender, New Hanover, and Brunswick.
Published: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 @ 7:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Chests are being thumped defiantly at Low-T headquarters on Raleigh's Jones Street. The McClatchy drive-bys are convinced that they have found Gov. Pat McCrory's Watergate.
Published: Monday, August 18th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Following a report from Duke Energy filed late today that a crack has formed in an earthen dam that's part of a coal ash impoundment at the Cape Fear Steam Electric Station in Chatham County, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that $500,000 from the Office of State Budget and Management's Repair and Renovation Contingency Reserve has been allocated to the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, the state's World War II memorial, to repair its hull.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Before Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition landed on the Outer Banks in 1585, French and Spanish explorers traveled across modern-day North Carolina and led the European powers in claiming American land.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commercial restrictions through tariffs have been an integral part of American history. The federal government has used forms of commercial restriction as a source of revenue and to protect American industry and labor.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Francis McNeilly, 95, of Cary passed away July 14, 2013, at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Center in Wilmington, NC.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. will locate a new manufacturing facility in Robeson County.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Although scholars disagree regarding the exact path of Hernando De Soto's expedition in the Southeast, all agree that the Spaniard and his expedition passed through present-day Piedmont and western North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For much of the sixteenth century, France and Spain competed for control of what would become the southeastern United States.
Published: Monday, December 17th, 2012 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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