A city-operated wastewater treatment plant in Randolph County discharged substantially high levels of 1,4-dioxane last month into a tributary of the Cape Fear River, the drinking water supply for ...

Work began this week to add 4 acres to an existing oyster and recreational fishing reef in the lower Cape Fear River near the banks of Carolina Beach State Park. The North Carolina Coastal Federation ...

DEQ detected elevated levels of 1,4-dioxane in a sample collected on January 24 from the City of Asheboro’s wastewater ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — In a video sent to CBS 17, a fishing charter based in Fayetteville caught a massive catfish in a local Sandhills river. AWOL Fishing Charters, operated by Captain Craig and ...

“A major pre-Revolutionary port on North Carolina’s Cape Fear River, Brunswick was partially burned during the Revolutionary War and never fully recovered. During the Civil War, Fort Anderson was ...

Elevated levels of a potential cancer-causing chemical drained into the largest river basin in North Carolina earlier this year, according to state officials. The North Carolina Department of ...

Fans of author John D. MacDonald should get excited because a new TV series called Cape Fear, based on his 1957 novel The Executioners, is coming soon! The novel inspired Gregory Peck’s 1962 ...

Chef Gwen Gulliksen from GLOW Academy of Wilmington stopped by the WECT Kitchen and shared a recipe that delivers the sweet...and brings the heat.

DEQ is also monitoring wastewater plants in Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, and Reidsville, where some progress has been made in reducing contamination.