Top 10 7. WPD to get 4 social workers for homelessness response, anti-camping ordinance delayed Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily After two weeks of waiting to finalize the vote and a night full of public disagreement,...
Top 10 8. Duke Energy theft meant lights out for thousands Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that two men have been arrested in a string...
Top 10 9. Randolph extends superintendent’s contract Daniel Kennedy/The High Point Enterprise One year after Randolph County Schools System approved a contract extension and a 2.5-percent pay...
Top 10 10. Local holistic crisis response team expands service into Carrboro Ben Crosbie/WCHL Chapelboro After a year of operating in Chapel Hill, the Crisis Assistance, Response, and Engagement (CARE) team is...
Top 10 1. Medicaid cuts loom as NC legislature wraps up without agreement, budget deal Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Medicaid coverage will likely be cut next month – and state employees and teachers will continue to...
Top 10 2. The year after Helene, in the words of those who lived it Jack Evans, John Boyle and Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog It has been almost one year since Tropical Storm Helene blew through...
Top 10 3. Cashless bail, explained: What it is, how it works and why Trump is targeting it Amanda Hernández/NC Newsline When President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month threatening to withhold federal funding from states...
Top 10 4. Fujifilm’s new facility opens in Holly Springs, the largest of its kind in North America WRAL News Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies opened its new, $3.2 billion bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Holly Springs on Wednesday, and the...
Top 10 5. Beyond bureaucracy: When Helene exposed government failures, nonprofits stepped in Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News As on any other rainy late summer morning in Southern Appalachia, the sun rose over densely...
Top 10 6. Nearly a third of WS/FCS students were chronically absent last year. Officials say anxiety is a big factor Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Kids in North Carolina returned to class about a month ago for the start of a new...
Top 10 7. Spruce Pine making strides, facing long recovery a year after Helene Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On a mild late-summer afternoon in September, 86-year-old Tom Westall watered the flowers newly planted in...
Top 10 8. Seafood coalition proposes moving Fisheries to Agriculture Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online A discussion about a proposal to transfer the Division of Marine Fisheries from the Department of...
Top 10 9. Sun rises again for PWC’s north Fayetteville solar farm Paul Woolverton/CityView The Fayetteville City Council voted 8-1 on Monday to approve zoning that the Fayetteville Public Works Commission needs...
Top 10 10. Latino entrepreneurship hub Spark Centro appoints first CEO Julian Berger/WFAE Radio The Latin American Chamber of Commerce has named a new head for Spark Centro, a hub for...
Top 10 1. Lawsuit accuses UNC board of hiding information from public, approving Bill Belichick’s hire in illegal closed session Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News A new lawsuit accuses the UNC Board of Trustees of “systematically hiding matters of grave public...
