Top 10 2. Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan announces she will not seek reelection Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who was first elected to that job in 2013, announced at the very end of the...
Top 10 3. NC clerks dropped from wrongful detention lawsuit, court software company still blamed After facing a lawsuit related to alleged wrongful detentions and arrests, several defendants have been dropped from the case against...
Top 10 4. NC Democrats say religious groups with millions in state funding lack accountability. Now there’s a standoff over records Private groups, including many aligned with conservative Christian churches and activists, have received hundreds of millions of dollars in state...
Top 10 5. Henderson Republican chair charged with assault on female; Buncombe chair has same charge The chair of Henderson County’s Republican Party has been charged with assault on a female after a fellow GOP county...
Top 10 6. NC charter board approves big expansion for two low-performing Charlotte schools North Carolina’s charter school board voted Monday to let two low-performing schools in Charlotte expand dramatically next year. The votes...
Top 10 7. New report links rate increases for Duke Energy customers mostly to natural gas volatility Many Duke Energy customers saw higher energy bills last year due to a sharp increase in natural gas prices, according...
Top 10 8. Rooted in rural: Schools as anchor institutions North Canton Elementary in Haywood County only runs one morning bus route, and at the wheel is Carol Harkins. She...
Top 10 9. Fisheries Division seeks to delay mandatory catch reporting State fisheries officials are asking lawmakers for another year to roll out a new harvest reporting requirement for coastal recreational...
Top 10 10. Jurors should have considered stand-your-ground defense in sawed-off shotgun killing, judges rule A man convicted of killing his landlord’s adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because...
Top 10 8. Dean’s List: What’s next for UNC’s Campus Y? A new committee is tasked with deciding When UNC-Chapel Hill administrators closed the Campus Y building this spring, outcry from students and alumni was immediate. And while...
Top 10 9. North Carolina’s new anonymous anti-poaching program leads to multiple arrests, convictions The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said its anonymous reporting program has been helpful in apprehending poachers since launching last...
Top 10 1. ‘They need to back off’: Farm states push back on Biden’s bird flu response The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is at odds with state officials and the dairy industry over its on-the-ground...
Top 10 2. Federal lawsuit: Mission/HCA illegally kept pay of 1,000 hospital, other workers A newly filed federal lawsuit says the HCA-owned Mission Health system illegally withheld pay of 1,000 or more employees. The...
Top 10 3. Chasing Gen Z voters: Sweeping water uphill? A month ago, I spoke to students at a UNC Charlotte political science class. I talked about the Biden campaign...
Top 10 4. Aberdeen looks at historic preservation, revitalization Aberdeen plans to examine its historic guidelines for commercial buildings, wanting to balance preservation of historic structures in its downtown...
