Top 10 5. SCC enrollment rises 37% in five years Justin Smith/The (Whiteville) News Reporter Southeastern Community College has seen steady enrollment increases in each of the last five years,...
Top 10 6. Durham expands Montessori magnet school program with latest addition Kate Denning/Carolina Public Press Durham Public Schools’ network of Montessori schools is more than 20 years in the making, and...
Top 10 7. Delivery drones may soon take off in the US. Here’s why Dee-Ann Durbin/The Associated Press Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s...
Top 10 8. Mental health facilities in North Carolina will try a new method to avoid restraining young patients Bradley George/WUNC Radio Psychiatric residential treatment centers in North Carolina will test a new de-escalation method for dealing with youth...
Top 10 9. Property for sale following shift in municipal plans Nick Fogleman/Watauga Democrat The Town of Boone has listed approximately 20 acres of the Bolick Property for sale after determining...
Top 10 10. Guilford County’s top officials pull in big salaries Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times In Guilford County government these days, the top job comes with the top paycheck: Brand new...
Top 10 1. Bladen County business owners share ideas and challenges Heidi Perez-Moreno/Border Belt Independent Sonya Hillburn used three decades of retirement and personal savings to open Above & Beyond Wellness...
Top 10 2. Economic, environmental ripple effects feared from potential EPA downsizing in NC Will Atwater/NC Health News As the Trump administration keeps pushing to change the focus of scientific research and roll back...
Top 10 3. Flash flood warning sirens in Haywood County could save lives in future storms Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press Later this year, the first of 18 flash flood warning sirens will be installed at the...
Top 10 4. What students and parents need to know about NC’s new direct admission to college Sergio Osnaya-Prieto/Education NC More than 62,000 North Carolina public high school seniors are set to receive direct admission to select...
Top 10 5. Prominent civil rights leader William Barber criticizes Charlotte’s transit tax from pulpit Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Prominent civil rights leader William Barber II spoke against Charlotte’s proposed 1-cent tax for roads and transit...
Top 10 6. U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee took voters’ questions at a Carrboro town hall. Here are some highlights Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee continued her series of town halls in North Carolina’s fourth congressional last week...
Top 10 7. The first ever Wawa Travel Center is set to open in Hope Mills, company to invest $600 million in NC Nick Bentley/WNCN Wawa has chosen North Carolina as the place for its first ever travel center, and hopes to invest...
Top 10 8. Proposed Clayton shopping center meets neighborly opposition Scott Bolejack/Johnstonian News A development firm proposes to plant a 40-foot landscape buffer between its shopping center on Clayton Boulevard...
Top 10 9. Pfeiffer-North Stanly Water Association to receive $4.9 million Jesse Deal/The Stanly News & Press A nonprofit water utility corporation based in Richfield has been awarded nearly $5 million...
