3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (240+ words) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) "After nearly 20 years with the North Carolina Azalea Festival, Alison Baringer is no longer serving as the festival's executive director. WWAY reached out to the North Carolina Azalea Festival for additional details. In an email, Michael Franklin,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (552+ words) Measles outbreaks'are growing'along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine. Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) Hotels and lodges will welcome back visitors to the Grand Canyon's South Rim after the national park'halted overnight stays for more than a week'because of multiple breaks in a water pipeline,'the park said Monday. Starting Wednesday, visitors can stay…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (411+ words) NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY-TV) " As Crystal Anderson sits on a knitted blanket her mother made for her, she looks back at the childhood she once had. Her mother, Rhonda West had her when she was just 16-years-old. Despite being…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (177+ words) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) " A memorial service for assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk was held in Arizona last Sunday, and a Wilmington man made the trip out there to attend the service in person. WWAY spoke with Wayne Johnston last Friday…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (997+ words) The'wildfire'along the canyon's more isolated North Rim, where most visitors don't venture, was burning quickly with no containment, fire officials said. No injuries had been reported, but more than 70 structures were lost, including a visitors center and several cabins. At…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (184+ words) Visitors and staff at two national parks in the U.S. West have been evacuated because of wildfires. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, about 260 miles (418 kilometers) southwest of Denver, closed Thursday morning after lighting sparked blazes on both rims, the…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (386+ words) Rowsey is one of eleven homeowners in Oakwood Glen who are technically part of Oak Island. The rest of the neighborhood, however, is not. OAK ISLAND, NC (WWAY) "A group of homeowners in the Oakwood Glen neighborhood are pushing for…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (516+ words) A coalition of state attorneys general including Jeff Jackson sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19initiatives andvarious public health projectsacross the country. Attorneys general from 23 states filed the…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (505+ words) Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, was'slated to be lethally injected'with pentobarbital at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. Gunches fatally shot Ted Price, his girlfriend's ex-husband, in the desert outside the Phoenix suburb of Mesa in 2002. Gunches is the second of…...