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6 days ago | whqr.org | Kelly Kenoyer

A cyclist died over the weekend in a car crash — and it wasn't the first such death on Wilmington streets this year. The latest collision took place on Wrightsville Avenue not far from Novant’s Orthopedic hospital. 57-year-old John Williams was struck while riding an e-bike; he was transported to the hospital by EMS with serious injuries, and passed away the next day.

6 days ago | whqr.org | Julia Simon |Jeongyoon Han

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction. President Trump, a longtime critic of wind energy, issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects, one of his first executive orders upon returning to the White House.

1 week ago | whqr.org | Kelly Kenoyer

Ben Schachtman: Ok, Kelly, so the recent housing breakfast covered a lot of ground, including a legislative update, and a look at how housing trust funds can work in other cities, namely Charlotte and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kell Kenoyer: Right, and it was kind of: good news, bad news. BS: Let’s start with the bad news, which came from Sam Gunter’s legislative briefing – he’s the executive director of the North Carolina Housing Coalition, and also a Baptist minister, so the man can work a room.

1 week ago | whqr.org | Rachel Keith

Sarah Ridout is the HOP Director with Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear. She said that providing these services, on average, saves Medicaid $85 a month per member because, as the UNC report showed, members are less likely to visit the emergency department. In 2024, for Cape Fear HOP, that meant a yearly savings of up to $1.4 million.

1 week ago | whqr.org | Benjamin Schachtman |Johanna Still

The Dive is a free weekly newsletter jointly published by WHQR and The Assembly. You can find more information and subscribe here. Shital Patel has never been a confrontational person. But in the dental office lobby in Leland that day, she felt in her gut that something was off. It was a Thursday afternoon in summer 2020, at the height of pandemic precautions, and her husband was undergoing a routine dental procedure.