Bethany Joy Lenz, known for her role in "One Tree Hill," was crowned the 78th North Carolina Azalea Festival queen. Lenz, who resided in Wilmington for a decade, expressed her deep connection to ...

For nearly five decades, it was literally unheard of for the North Carolina Azalea Festival to crown a queen with ties to the Wilmington area. Since the first Azalea Festival in 1948, its queens ...

Some of the parade participants will include Queen Azalea LXXVIII Bethany Joy Lenz, marching bands, area dignitaries and pageant winners. Paid bleacher seating is available along Third Street.

Sharon Lawrence was named the 77th Queen Azalea of the N.C. Azalea Festival on Friday. The 77th queen of the Azalea Festival is Sharon Lawrence, a longtime actress who's been in everything from ...

APRIL 6, 2005-- The Azalea Festival is off to a flying start with a day of royal events and a Travis Tritt, but the festivities started early, with a welcome ceremony at Wilmington International ...

Before she was a Munster, Pat Priest was a Queen. Norfolk’s first Azalea Queen, crowned in 1954 when the city decided to celebrate spring with a touch of pomp and circumstance. She went on to ...

Ditto for being the Azalea Queen, we hope. Long live the queen. (Just keep your head down, Your Highness.) York County woman says man who sexually assaulted her sent her a follow request on Instagram.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Nia Franklin, a composer, actress and singer who was crowned Miss America in 2019, will be Queen Azalea at this year’s North Carolina Azalea Festival. Franklin has had her ...

From the festival's first year in 1948 until the year of his death, the Azalea Festival queen's official portrait was always taken in Rehder's sprawling garden filled with blooming azaleas ...

The 78th North Carolina Azalea Festival queen has been crowned, and the party has officially started. Bethany Joy Lenz, who lived and worked in Wilmington for years as a star of the series "One ...