Top 10 2. NCDEQ greenlights fugitive dust plans for Wilmington port facilities Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily State regulators are to begin enforcing new air quality requirements at two Port of Wilmington facilities...
Top 10 3. ‘Things could have gotten even worse.’ Southport shooting suspect makes first court appearance Nikolai Mather/WHQR Nigel Edge has been charged with multiple counts of murder following Saturday night’s shooting at American Fish Company,...
Top 10 4. Trump administration awards $53 million for NC charter schools Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools has won a nearly $53 million federal grant to...
Top 10 5. Damage from Helene creates conservation headaches for crucial highland spruce-fir forest Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Swaths of downed timber are a common sight throughout Western North Carolina after Tropical Storm Helene,...
Top 10 6. Sand is vanishing on east side of Ocean Isle’s $11M erosion fix Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online When the Army Corps of Engineers issued its final decision on the terminal groin project here...
Top 10 7. After death of Charlie Kirk, UNC Board of Trustees reviews upgrades to campus security Henry Taylor/WCHL Chapelboro Following the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, the UNC...
Top 10 8. TV pilot shot in Wilmington for major network will be made into a full series John Staton/Wilmington StarNews A TV show whose pilot episode shot in the Wilmington area in 2025 will be made into...
Top 10 9. Grad student works in pain after being denied medical leave on UNC insurance plan Maria Sullivan/The Daily Tar Heel UNC graduate student Sean Taylor spent a year of his doctoral program begging for relief....
Top 10 10. Hendersonville to pitch $10 million road bond issue to voters Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The city of Hendersonville is poised to send a $10 million road bond issue to taxpayers next...
Top 10 1. Debate over policy vs. funding dominates violent crime hearing in Charlotte Andy Weber/Queen City News A congressional field hearing held in Charlotte Monday morning turned emotional and, at times, contentious as...
Top 10 2. Medicaid standoff could put health care for many North Carolinians at risk Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News Efforts to prevent cuts that could significantly lower reimbursement to providers for services for North Carolinians...
Top 10 3. After Southport shooting, NC Gov. Stein urges fix for ‘broken’ health care system Josh Shaffer/The (Raleigh) News & Observer North Carolina “must fix its broken health care system” to prevent more violent attacks,...
Top 10 4. Community advocate Rodney Sadler ready to challenge North Carolina Rep. Carla Cunningham in 2026 Dedrick Russell/WBTV North Carolina Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Democrat, has represented District 106 in Mecklenburg County since 2013 — but...
Top 10 5. Hurricane Helene took down first responders’ primary radio network — now they’re reviving an old technology Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Black Mountain volunteer firefighter David Billstrom hails the fire chief on a handheld radio. “401 from 494...
Top 10 6. What Helene taught us about deadly landslides Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio When Darlene Kurkendall closes her eyes, she imagines the walls of her house falling away....