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Sofia Dinka

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Aug 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Sofia Dinka

    Deep Dive: Over $2.5 million raised in races for New Hanover commissioners, school board, and state reps (opens the original)

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    Quarter 2 numbers reflect everything that was raised and spent up until June 30. (Notably, for the purposes of campaign finance reporting, Q1 is very short, including only January and half of February; Q2 covers mid-February through the end of June.) Data comes from finance reports publicly available through the New Hanover County Board of Elections and the North Carolina Board of Elections. WHQR reached out to verify the amounts raised and spent to date with each campaign, especially in cases w

  2. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Sofia Dinka

    City of Wilmington signs historical preservation impact agreement for Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement (opens the original)

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    That’s a multi-agency agreement led by the Federal Highway Administration. A PA is meant to satisfy requirements set by Section 106, also known as the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. That’s a federal law that requires officials to analyze a project's impact on historical properties and make a plan to mitigate it. Details around the bridge replacement are undecided, with officials still considering whether to replace the current bridge with a lift bridge or a taller fixed bridge. The

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Sofia Dinka

    NCDOT rejects public-private partnership for Cape Fear Memorial Bridge project (opens the original)

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    According to a representative from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, NCDOT denied an unsolicited proposal from Delivering Bridges LLC for a public-private partnership (P3). Under a P3, the LLC would have helped build and fund the bridge in exchange for payment, likely in the form of tolling rights. The unsolicited proposal was submitted in February. In March, WMPO gave the DOT permission to screen the P3 proposal. Earlier this month, the NCDOT’s oversight committee decided not to

  4. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Sofia Dinka

    Public comment deadline on competing plans for New Hanover County hospital beds coming up (opens the original)

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    Since then, Novant Health, UNC Health and Atrium Health all filed Certificate of Need (CON) applications with the state. CONs allow the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to approve or deny hospital additions based on assessed need. Novant’s proposal is to build a new 225-bed facility expanding the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington. UNC Health proposed a new hospital complex with no more than 150 beds about a mile from Novant’s medical center. Atrium Health su

  5. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Sofia Dinka

    Meeting planned for environmental officials to discuss clean-up at Navassa Superfund site (opens the original)

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    At the Navassa site, Kerr-McGee used creosote and other chemicals to treat wooden railroad ties and utility poles from 1936 to 1974. The facility operated on about 70 acres near Brunswick River and Sturgeon Creek. It was decommissioned and dismantled in 1980. In 2010, contamination of groundwater, soil, and sediment by creosote-related chemicals caused the EPA to add the land to the National Priorities List. That's the EPA’s list of sites with the most known releases or threatened releases of ha

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