Top 10 3. State Health Plan Board of Trustees considers options to raise premiums, make other changes Anna Pogarcic/Education NC After the State Health Plan’s Board of Trustees voted to allow salary-based premiums earlier this year, Board...
Top 10 4. NC House and Senate bills would raise age for tobacco sales to 21, create permitting system for retailers Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Rob Crane watched his father struggle with lung cancer for months before he died in his...
Top 10 5. With realignment in mind, new bill would require UNC, NC State to play annually in multiple sports Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and NC State played for the first time in football in 1894. They first clashed...
Top 10 6. Federal appropriation will shore up Canton water infrastructure Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News The Town of Canton is about to receive a huge economic development boost after Rep. Chuck...
Top 10 7. Southport gives state more time on proposed land deal Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A deal between Southport to sell hundreds of acres of land to the North Carolina...
Top 10 8. More than $80 million in PWC infrastructure funds frozen under Trump administration Evey Weisblat/CityView The Fayetteville Public Works Commission is unable to access more than $80 million in federal funding the utility...
Top 10 9. As Black neighborhoods in Brunswick fight for clean water, a human rights group intervenes Daniel Sheehan/Wilmington StarNews Brunswick County residents are teaming up with an international human rights organization to advocate for access to...
Top 10 10. New organization plans to defend and support students charged in new conduct system Regan Butler/The Daily Tar Heel On March 19, student advisors from the UNC Office of Student Conduct launched the Student...
Top 10 1. NC lawmaker proposes bill aiming to make political discrimination in disaster relief a felony Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio A North Carolina Republican state lawmaker wants to make sure disaster assistance cannot be denied to people...
Top 10 2. EPA targets remaining federal isolated wetlands protections Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said last week that he plans to make good on...
Top 10 3. Demo of Canton paper mill begins Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Demolition is underway at the former paper mill in Canton, signaling another step towards a new...
Top 10 4. NC lawmakers urged to fully fund Leandro plan after decades of inaction Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline For the sixth year in a row, Rep. Julie von Haefen has filed a bill to fully...
Top 10 5. Too costly to keep, but too important to lose. Solving paradox of NC rural women’s health services Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals can’t afford...
Top 10 6. Greensboro annexes land formerly part of Summerfield for housing project DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio Greensboro recently approved annexing land that was formerly part of the town of Summerfield into its city...
Top 10 7. Raleigh greenlights $21.8M Lake Wheeler Road upgrade WRAL News Raleigh City Council on Tuesday approved a $21.8 million contract that will improve Lake Wheeler Road and make...