Top 10 10. Fire on Bodenhamer Street in Kernersville destroys electric company’s building WFDD Radio The electric company Caudill’s in Kernersville, has released a statement after a fire destroyed its historic building on...
Top 10 1. What’s in the Tiawana Brown indictment: COVID relief loans and a birthday party with a rented throne Ely Portillo/WFAE Radio On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson announced that Charlotte City...
Top 10 2. Prescient warnings about Helene didn’t reach people in harm’s way. Here are 5 lessons for the next hurricane. Jennifer Berry Hawes & Mollie Simon/ProPublica When Hurricane Helene plowed over the Southeast last September, it caused more inland deaths...
Top 10 3. Memorial Day travel: lower gas prices, record travel numbers expected WRAL News Memorial Day weekend continues to to be one of the most popular weekend for folks to hit the...
Top 10 4. How a disaster recovery firm pitched itself to North Carolina, years after losing prior contract Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline The firm that will run North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene recovery program in the western mountains, as it...
Top 10 5. NC House passes budget that stakes a fight with Senate over teacher pay Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio North Carolina House lawmakers have passed a budget bill that would raise beginning teacher pay by about...
Top 10 6. No tax increase: Henderson County proposes ‘trim and efficient’ budget Gerard Albert III/Blue Ridge Public Radio There’s no property tax increase planned, for the fourth year in a row, in...
Top 10 7. Painful cuts. NC VA workers fear financial surgery will maim the agency. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Darlene Fore is terrified. She’s a nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Asheville:...
Top 10 8. Settlement reached in Cherokee County police involved shooting case Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News More than two years after he was shot by Cherokee Indian Police Department SWAT Team members,...
Top 10 9. Cumberland County health director announces she’s leaving. Here’s why. F.T. Norton/Fayetteville Observer Cumberland County Health Director Dr. Jennifer Green will leave her position at the end of the year...
Top 10 10. David Letterman dines at Daniel’s in Wilson Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times There weren’t any stupid pet tricks or top 10 lists, but there was small-town news...
Top 10 1. Army Corps recommends minimum height for Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has formally recommended that a replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge...
Top 10 2. City pauses mill district plan Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise The city of High Point has put a hold on its efforts to enact its proposed...
Top 10 3. Federal government opens Title IX investigation into WCU Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has made headlines by targeting the United States’ most well-known...
Top 10 4. Commissioners seek to force city to provide sewer to cider company Bill Moss/Hendersonville Lightning Henderson County commissioners want to use a 25-year-old utilities agreement to force to the city of Hendersonville...