''Star-News'' is an American, English language daily

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for

Wilmington, North Carolina Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is t ...

, and its surrounding area (known as the Lower Cape Fear). It is North Carolina's oldest newspaper in continuous publication. It was owned by

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until 2015, when Halifax was acquired by

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History

The paper was originally published on September 23, 1867, as the ''Wilmington Evening Star'' by former

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Major William H. Bernard. Shortly after first publishing the paper, Bernard changed the paper to come out in the morning and changed the paper name to the ''Wilmington Morning Star''. " was an ardent advocacy of white supremacy-a view never more strongly demonstrated than in its coverage of the Wilmington race riots of 1898." In 1927, R. W. Page bought the ''Morning Star,'' and in 1929 bought the city's afternoon newspaper, the ''Wilmington News-Dispatch,'' which was later shortened to simply the ''Wilmington News.'' Later in 1929, the two papers began running a combined edition on Sunday, the ''Star-News.'' Page and his family continued to own the paper until 1975, when it was acquired by

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. From 1935 to 1970, the ''Morning Star'' was located in the Murchison Building on North Front Street in downtown Wilmington. The newspaper moved into its current location at 1003 17th Street South in 1970. On April 24, 2003; separate delivery of the ''Morning Star'' and ''News'' ended, and the two papers merged into a single seven-day paper, the ''Star-News''. In 2018, the paper launched a podcast called "Cape Fear Unearthed," hosted by reporter Hunter Ingram. As a result of damage from

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in September 2018, the ''Star-News'' moved into a temporary location in the Harrelson Building, after operating from a

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, and even homes of staff. The ''Star-News'' never stopped publishing during the storm.

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Archive of previous issues of ''Star-News''
on Google News {{DEFAULTSORT:Star-News Wilmington, North Carolina New Hanover County, North Carolina Cape Fear (region) Daily newspapers published in the United States Gannett publications Daily newspapers published in North Carolina Publications established in 1867 1867 establishments in North Carolina

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