Top 10 6. North Carolina Railroad Co. awards grants for industrial site preparation Trains The North Carolina Railroad Co. has awarded two $500,000 grants to prepare rail-served industrial sites for future development and...
Top 10 7. ‘Cardiac Pack’ brings NIL fight against NCAA to NC Supreme Court Will Doran/WRAL News Members of N.C. State’s 1983 national championship men’s basketball team told the North Carolina Supreme Court Tuesday...
Top 10 8. Exponential Scholars funds thousands of teacher projects through $2.25 million donation Molly Steur/Education NC As teachers across North Carolina finish setting up their classrooms for the new school year, they often...
Top 10 9. Cary leaders recommend adding more eyes on travel expenses after state audit Flynn Snyder/WRAL News A committee of Cary Town Council members met Tuesday evening as fallout continues from a recent state...
Top 10 10. Swain Commission considers $3 million airport purchase Lily Levin/Smoky Mountain News Swain County Manager Tommy Dills at a Sept. 1 commission meeting proposed the county purchase 67...
Top 10 1. Wilmington hiring consultant to find less costly, impactful CF Memorial Bridge options Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The public has a little more than a month to provide feedback before it’s decided whether...
Top 10 2. New ferry toll law is ‘like the man sticking it to you again’ Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Five days a week, John Richards drives the roughly 15-minute commute from his rural Beaufort County...
Top 10 3. Waynesville seeks legal opinion on how to regulate large development projects Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer One Waynesville councilmember is seeking a legal opinion on what the town can do to better...
Top 10 4. Pardee emerging from Mission’s shadow Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog In August, UNC Health Pardee celebrated the opening of a 23-bed adolescent mental health unit. Dozens of...
Top 10 5. Jackson County kills school bond referendum Alex Perri/Smoky Mountain News Jackson County Commissioners voted 4-1 to shoot down a $105 million school bond referendum at a...
Top 10 6. Candidates talk top issues, from film incentives to growth Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Film incentives, the New Hanover Community Endowment and funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, such as the replacement...
Top 10 7. State Board discusses chronic absenteeism, technology, special education, and more Molly Steur/Education NC The State Board of Education convened for its monthly meeting this week, where the Board heard a...
Top 10 8. Short supply on East Coast boosts apple price here Bill Moss & Amy B. McCraw/Hendersonville Lightning Given the early freezes, late frosts, windstorms, hurricanes and floods that have battered...
Top 10 9. Lombardi won’t have to pay UNC for resigning early Shaun Gallagher, Brian Murphy & Jack Hagel/WRAL News Michael Lombardi, who resigned Thursday as the general manager of the University...
Top 10 10. UNC and Duke herbaria to merge in Chapel Hill, two years after Duke announced plant collection cannot stay on campus Daneen Khan/WUNC News Stepping into the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium feels similar to entering a witch’s lair. There’s no bubbling cauldrons,...