Wilmington News

The spinoff will allow Wilmington, N.C.-based PolyQuest to focus on its primary businesses of distributing and recycling PET resin, officials said in an April 16 news release.

Wilmington native Peggy Payne, author of the novels "Revelation," "Sister India" and "Cobalt Blue," will lead a fiction workshop June 1-7 at Doe Branch Ink, the writers' retreat in the North Carolina mountains near Marshall, N.C., north of Asheville.

A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right.

WILMINGTON, NC Many pilots in the Port City are in need of a new place to store their planes.

WILMINGTON, NC The Wilmington Police Department is doing its part to reach out to the teen community in Wilmington by hosting basketball and fun nights Saturday and Sunday nights.

What happens when you're asked to give a speech, professionally or personally? If you get nervous, start sweating, and hope it's all just a bad dream then you aren't alone, but you need help.

You've been likely been there to pick up some specialty groceries and gifts or stopped in for lunch, but Pine Valley Market, 3520 S. College Road in Wilmington, cooks up Sunday brunch , too.

Rosie O'Donnell has shed nearly 50 pounds in recent months - and she's posted a picture on Twitter to prove it .

As WECT celebrates its 60th anniversary, we're taking a look back at some of the big moments we've covered over the decades.

This National Best Selling book, written by international professional speaker, Lenny Laskowski continues to be a best seller and one of the hottest selling books on public speaking.

WILMINGTON, NC Due to a high chance of rain this weekend the Rim On The River show is being postponed and rescheduled.

Hopscotch celebrates its fifth year in downtown Raleigh September 4th - 6th. The initial lineup comprises 115 acts with forty more to be announced.

Before sending one of her purebred bunnies home with a prospective adopter, Lee Gushman asks a series of screening questions about basic rabbit care.

A Wilmington, N.C., man sitting in the Douglas County Jail will be sent back to North Carolina to face murder charges.

A search team assembled Tuesday morning on Fifth Street to look for Shannon Rippy, who was often seen riding her segway in downtown Wilmington.

A Wilmington man, who police say is making his way back to the Port City now faces a murder charge.

To celebrate being home to 100 craft breweries, April has been declared North Carolina Beer Month by Governor Pat McCrory, and in the spirit of that celebration, the Greater Topsail Area Chamber of Commerce hosts its fourth annual Hops of Spring Beer Festival.

Fermental , 7250 Market St. in Wilmington, is hosting An Evening with Foothills Brewing at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Future funding of Coastal Storm Damage Reduction projects was the topic of conversation during a joint meeting called by Carolina Beach Mayor Dan Wilcox Tuesday, April 15. Present at the meeting were representatives from New Hanover County, its three beach towns, City of Wilmington and the Wilmington and Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Tuesday, Myra Lawson, Betty Hill, and William Riley were caught stealing around 300 of these plants in Boiling Spring Lakes.