Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a short drive north of downtown Wilmington sits one of the region's biggest bodies of water that's easily accessible to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Franks wiped his brow and hopped into his johnboat on another blazingly hot summer afternoon in Southeastern North Carolina ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- A March sampling from Sutton Lake found high levels of mercury in largemouth bass, which has resulted in a new fish advisory. “Some kinds of fish contain high amounts of mercury, ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The boating access area at New Hanover County’s Sutton Lake will close temporarily beginning Oct. 29 to receive a facelift. Duke Energy, which owns the lake, says the work will ...

Gov. Joe Manchin will officially open the new Sutton Lake Marina this afternoon with a ribbon cutting scheduled ceremony. The marina's new owners, Bill and Mary Hunt, said Lt.C. Jason Smallfield, ...

A new report funded by environmental organizations finds the chemical selenium kills nearly a million fish a year in a popular sport-fishing lake near Wilmington. The organizations blame a nearby Duke ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A coal ash spill from two weeks ago has left many people in the Cape Fear on edge as we waited for test results to come back. Well the results are in. The North Carolina ...