Top 10 1. New CMS board chair’s 2008 fraud conviction surfaces amid controversy Jonathan Lowe/WSOC News The new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty to one count, which was count...
Top 10 2. Auditor relaunches review of NC Medicaid project that costs hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars Randall Kerr & Caroline Yaffa/WRAL News North Carolina has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to modernize the...
Top 10 3. Regulators issue first U.S. construction permit for GE Vernova Hitachi reactor Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a construction permit Tuesday for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor in...
Top 10 4. NC House education chair: School funding model is ‘broken’ David N. Bass/The Carolina Journal School finance officers told a state commission on Sept. 28 that they routinely assign employees...
Top 10 5. Despite progress, challenges continue for Charlotte transit Mackenzie Thomas/Carolina Public Press A drop in crime points to efforts made to improve safety and security on Charlotte’s light...
Top 10 6. Davidson County pivots back on data center issue Jill Doss-Raines/The High Point Enterprise A month after a tied vote on the issue, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners...
Top 10 7. Bad luck and red tape stymie Waynesville’s FEMA reimbursements Becky Johnson/The Waynesville Mountaineer Waynesville’s road to recovery since Helene has been riddled with potholes of bureaucracy. A handful of...
Top 10 8. Angel’s Watch, a voluntary short-term respite care program in western NC, alleviates pressure on the foster care system Molly Steur/EducationNC One of the goals of the North Carolina Division of Social Services (DSS) is to prevent children from...
Top 10 9. With new developments in research, football is reckoning with CTE Amy Snively/The Daily Tar Heel Last week, North Carolina’s bright blue helmets descended into Death Valley to take on the...
Top 10 10. Can parents opt their children out of a transgender teacher’s class? Here’s what courts say Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News The hiring of a transgender teacher at a Wake County elementary school has drawn national attention and...
Top 10 1. GOP doubts about North Carolina and Georgia have Republicans shifting focus in battle for Senate Thomas Beaumont, Bill Barrow & Steven Sloan/The Associated Press Republicans once saw North Carolina and Georgia as promising pieces of...
Top 10 2. Proposed Census changes could lead to consequences from NC undercount, experts say Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC News The Census Bureau is proposing rules with major changes to how the U.S. population will be counted...
Top 10 3. New CMS board chair’s 2008 fraud conviction surfaces amid controversy Jonathan Lowe/WSOC News The new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty in 2008 to 39 counts tied...
Top 10 4. Some NC Obamacare recipients among those being cut. How many remains unclear. Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it had canceled health insurance for...
Top 10 5. Tar Heel senators on board with Protect College Sports Act of 2026 Alan Wooten/The Center Square Regulation of college sports, potentially corralling a volatile period of amateur athletes zooming forward with multi-million...
