Top 10 4. New freestanding ERs: faster care, but it can cost you From SouthPark to Steele Creek, Mountain Island Lake to Waxhaw, sleek and efficient freestanding emergency rooms are springing up across...
Top 10 5. Will 2045 plan promote housing? A trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of developers, builders and real estate brokers questions whether High Point’s new...
Top 10 6. Study finds North Carolina public schools are growing more segregated A new study by N.C. State University researchers has found that North Carolina public schools are becoming more segregated by...
Top 10 7. Judge denies request to undo readdition of DA to crime-lab lawsuit The wrongful termination and civil conspiracy case filed against local law enforcement and the district attorney by the former crime...
Top 10 9. Buncombe extends moratorium: California Bitcoin mine company upends Western NC Cherokee County Following uproar in the state’s far west over noise and other disruptions brought by cryptocurrency mining, Buncombe County has extended...
Top 10 10. Southern Shores Council passes balloon release ban At its May 7 meeting, the Southern Shores Town Council, by a 3-0 vote of the three members attending the...
Top 10 1. Despite revenue downgrade, North Carolina anticipates nearly $1B more in cash North Carolina officials downgraded a projected state revenue surplus through mid-2025 by $430 million on Friday, citing lower than anticipated...
Top 10 2. Totals on PFAS-contaminated utilities ‘coming down daily’ The number of North Carolinians whose tap water comes from systems that contain at least one chemical compound exceeding new...
Top 10 3. The impact of legalized sports betting on college athletes, gamblers and North Carolina The student-athletes on UNC-Chapel Hill’s baseball team have received negative messages from fans expecting certain performances before. But now that...
Top 10 4. North Carolina has lost almost 5% of its licensed child care programs since the pandemic began More licensed child care programs in North Carolina are closing their doors as the state approaches the expiration of pandemic-era...
Top 10 5. Whooping cough crosses county lines in WNC; Transylvania confirms outbreak A second county in Western North Carolina is now grappling with a whooping cough outbreak, with Transylvania Public Health confirming...
Top 10 6. Canton leaders make ‘big stink’ over big stink Festering frustration with nearly every aspect of Pactiv Evergreen’s actions taken in closing its Canton paper mill a year ago...
Top 10 7. Mark Robinson suggests he’s being politically persecuted amid probe of wife’s nonprofit Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson spoke out recently about the “challenges” his wife is facing amid a state agency’s probe of...
Top 10 8. Another Port City United employee arrested, fired in 2-month period A man arrested on multiple offenses Thursday has been terminated from his position with the county. Courtney Antwain McNeil, 24,...
Top 10 9. Judge affirms AdventHealth’s plans to build Weaverville hospital AdventHealth cleared a legal hurdle Friday in its quest to build a new hospital in Weaverville, paving the way for...
