Top 10 10. What’s in the latest defense authorization bill for Fort Bragg? Morgan Casey/CityView Fort Bragg could receive $240 million in federal funds to support the installation’s programs and infrastructure. The funds...
Top 10 1. Why was Warren Wilson omitted from NC Helene bill’s aid to colleges? Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press The most recent Helene recovery package from the state allocated $500 million to help address remaining...
Top 10 2. Have politics and changing energy policies sunk Brunswick’s proposed offshore wind farms? Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Call it a state of suspended animation. A mix of politics, changing national energy priorities, a...
Top 10 3. WNC can expect to lose population after Helene. How much remains unclear. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, some in government and the news media were...
Top 10 4. JCAR cost spikes as county nears vote on Phase 1 Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning The two newest Henderson County commissioners expressed alarmed last week when they learned that the latest cost...
Top 10 5. ‘Has ICE been through here?’: Deportation fears leave local laundromat empty Julian Berger/WFAE Radio On a busy stretch of North Tryon Street, cars speed past a small strip mall dominated by...
Top 10 6. NC elections board OKs changes to military, overseas voting Theresa Opeka/The Carolina Journal The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously on several items at its meeting...
Top 10 7. Famed Charlotte civil rights attorney James Ferguson has died Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Famed Charlotte civil rights attorney James Ferguson has died at age 82. He was part of the...
Top 10 8. Lumos, T-Mobile update sale Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise One of High Point’s largest employers says it has expanded its local presence since being...
Top 10 9. City sets public hearing on Plaza sale; more information given by developers Robert Sullivan/The Salisbury Post Ahead of a public hearing on the potential purchase of the city-owned Plaza, members of the...
Top 10 10. Ingles to build new Swannanoa store, replacing post office, Ace Hardware, official says Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times Black Mountain-based grocery store chain Ingles confirmed to Buncombe County staff that it plans to build...
Top 10 1. UNC study: 43% of flooded NC buildings were outside FEMA’s hazard zones Liz McLaughlin/WRAL News When torrents of muddy water filled the Trader Joe’s parking lot at Chapel Hill’s Eastgate Crossing this month,...
Top 10 2. ‘It has been devastating’: Chapel Hill leaders on recovering from Chantal Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro It has now been more than two weeks since Tropical Depression Chantal dropped a record amount of...
Top 10 3. Can a union make Charlotte’s municipal election a question of worker’s rights? Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The left has been rejuvenated in the first six months of the Trump administration, defying predictions that...
Top 10 4. Trump administration restores funds for after-school programs, other K-12 funds still frozen Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release some of the federal funds for public schools...