Top 10 5. The bus driver search goes round and round, round and round … Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer North Carolina’s school bus driver shortage continues unabated in Haywood County, with the local school system...
Top 10 6. Plan for new city hall paused Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point leaders say they’re reevaluating plans for a potential future City Hall on a...
Top 10 7. Union Grove Farm to appeal ruling preventing construction of music stage Michael Koh/WCHL Chapelboro Union Grove Farm in rural Orange County will appeal a ruling from the county’s Planning & Inspection...
Top 10 8. 5 ways Trump’s megabill will limit health care access WFAE Radio The tax and spending legislation the House voted to send to President Donald Trump’s desk on Thursday, enacting...
Top 10 9. Greensboro city attorney retires amid questions over outside legal work Woody Marshall/The (Greensboro) News & Record The news that Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts would be leaving his position after...
Top 10 10. Former Madison County manager and Marshall town administrator Gilliam takes state job Johnny Casey/Asheville Citizen Times Forrest Gilliam has had the best interests of residents in his hometown in mind since before...
Top 10 1. Western NC can expect to lose population after Helene. How much remains unclear. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, some in government and the news media were...
Top 10 2. Megabill could force NC legislature to find $700 million for food stamps Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio President Donald Trump’s megabill could cost North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a...
Top 10 3. Woodard pens letter to Senate leader on roots of ‘Shrimpgate’ Joy Crist/Coastal Review Online Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard sent a letter June 30 to Senate Leader...
Top 10 4. The what and why of ‘meet and confer’ in North Carolina school districts Ben Humphries/Education NC “We are the union! The mighty, mighty union!” members of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)...
Top 10 5. NC to get $150M from new opioid settlement as counties expand treatment and recovery services Taylor Knopf/NC Health News North Carolina is poised to receive $150 million from a new multi-state legal settlement with pharmaceutical...
Top 10 6. Analysis shows Trump’s tariffs would cost US employers $82.3 billion Josh Boak/The Associated Press An analysis finds a critical group of U.S. employers would face a direct cost of $82.3...
Top 10 7. Lawsuit alleges sexual abuse of minors at Waynesville Bojangles Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News An Asheville law firm has filed a civil suit on behalf of two minor female clients...
Top 10 8. Southport greenlights Waterway Community development Port City Daily A long discussed development in Southport has now been given the green light to move forward. On...
Top 10 9. Shining Rock charter school loses civil court case Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Six weeks after a week-long civil court trial between Shining Rock charter school and a former...
