Top 10 10. Black political caucus picks Joi Mayo over Tiawana Brown in close City Council vote Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Black Political Caucus (BPC) has endorsed political newcomer Joi Mayo in her bid to unseat embattled...
Top 10 1. UNC Health Infectious Disease researcher defends mRNA vaccine methods after federal funding cuts Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the cut of roughly $500 million worth...
Top 10 2. New grants boost Helene recovery efforts Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The American Flood Coalition’s Recovery and Resilience Partnership is barely six months old, but it’s already...
Top 10 3. Amid other teaching priorities and political tensions, NC civics lessons not being absorbed Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press In 2020, while their parents planned pilgrimages to the polls, Henderson County public school students from...
Top 10 4. North Carolina updates more than 20,000 voter records, seeks more ID numbers Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press Voter registration records for more than 20,000 people in North Carolina have been successfully amended...
Top 10 5. ‘We’re not getting anything accomplished’: Council hears from service providers on homeless issue Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily No clear plan of action emerged from the Wilmington City Council’s special meeting on homelessness Monday,...
Top 10 6. Businesses face ‘chaos’ as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution Michael Copley/WUNC Radio The Trump administration’s plan to undo a landmark finding that climate pollution threatens public health and welfare...
Top 10 7. City OKs downtown housing deal Pat Kimbrough/The (High Point) Enterprise The City Council on Monday unanimously authorized a real estate transaction aimed at promoting the...
Top 10 8. Few released under NC law that allows seriously ill incarcerated people to spend their final days at home Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News To give more seriously ill incarcerated people the opportunity to go home before they die, North...
Top 10 9. Mission applies to become only Level I trauma center in western North Carolina, NCDHHS document shows Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog Mission Hospital has applied to become a Level I trauma center, the highest designation a healthcare...
Top 10 10. Crain’s Creek fights spark debate Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot A series of fights at Crain’s Creek Middle School toward the end of last school...
Top 10 1. Beach strand in OBX closed amid fears of further home collapses during Hurricane Erin WUNC Radio The homes are on G.A. Kohler Court in Rodanthe — the same stretch where several homes have collapsed...
Top 10 2. Holly Hill under scrutiny again: State finds repeated failures after violent patient uprising Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Just days before Christmas 2024, a group of female teen patients broke into the nurse’s station...
Top 10 3. UNC Asheville halts stadium plan for wooded campus, will look at other ideas Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog The University of North Carolina Asheville will halt negotiations on its plans, announced just two months ago,...
Top 10 4. 2nd Mecklenburg County chief deputy resigns in less than a year WSOC News Another chief deputy has resigned from the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, less than a year after the previous...
