Top 10 3. State workers could face another health premium hike, depending on Duke-Aetna contract fight Will Doran/WRAL News Top North Carolina officials are closely watching contract negotiations between Duke Health and health insurance company Aetna...
Top 10 4. County outlines $15 million in missing FEMA funding Sarah White/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County is still waiting on $15.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency almost a...
Top 10 5. Trump admin cuts $38.4 million in research funding at UNC: climate change, AIDS, DEI Daneen Khan/The Daily Tar Heel Last May, UNC Professor Philip Berke received an email from Kristi Noem, the Secretary of...
Top 10 6. Mission cardiac patient dies after telemetry monitor disconnection; hospital declines nurses’ request for emergency meeting Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A Mission Hospital cardiac patient died in late July after becoming disconnected from telemetry monitoring for...
Top 10 7. Canton seeks operators for wastewater plant Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News When the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill in Canton closed after more than a century of operations...
Top 10 8. Appeals court rules felony offenders can’t be prosecuted for voting unlawfully by mistake Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina law that made it a...
Top 10 9. Supporters rally to keep 82nd Airborne museum open Abraham Kenmore/CityView For Mike Lopez, the small 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg is a cornerstone of...
Top 10 10. Shuttered fabrics mill purchased Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A south High Point medical distribution company plans to expand in a shuttered furniture factory...
Top 10 1. FEMA stiffs Waynesville over Frog Level bridge Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reneged on an implied promise to pay for Helene-related repairs...
Top 10 2. New NC law cracking down on regulations limits executive branch power Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press The North Carolina General Assembly pledged to rein in “unelected bureaucrats” with an overhaul of the...
Top 10 3. Students say NC’s new school cell phone ban takes adjusting to, but has benefits Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio As the bell rings to start a new period at Green Hope High in Cary, students settle...
Top 10 4. 12,500-home community proposed for Brunswick County Port City Daily Developers are seeking to transform a large tract of land into a new community that could add...
Top 10 5. City tries new approach on mill district Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point is trying a different approach to create its proposed Southwest...
Top 10 6. Wilmington film and TV industry could end 2025 as one of the slowest years this decade John Staton/Wilmington StarNews Over the decades, Wilmington’s film and television industry has been likened to a roller coaster, with years...
Top 10 7. ‘Historic’ Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council election results shake up council Lilly Knoepp/Blue Ridge Public Radio Five Tribal Council newcomers won in Thursday’s election on the Qualla Boundary, which saw lower-than-normal...