Top 10 2. UNC Chancellor interview: Monitoring executive orders, expanding enrollment, balancing academics and athletics WCHL Chapelboro UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts joined 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck on Friday, Jan. 31 for a wide-ranging interview...
Top 10 3. NC fines UnitedHealthcare $3.4M for improper billing practices Reems Landreth/WCNC News North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has fined UnitedHealthcare $3.4 million for violations in claims handling practices...
Top 10 4. Landslide detectives: Mapping Haywood’s slides one holler at a time Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Standing near the top of a 4,000-foot ridge above Chambers Cove, geologist Jennifer Bauer turns away...
Top 10 5. Kansas-based association requests SBI investigation of the Summerfield investigators Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Everyone knows the ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” Well, the residents in...
Top 10 6. Upon further review: Commission finds that NC elections suffer from deficits and distrust Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press James Hardaway spent Election Night counting ballots in Wake County. With another poll worker standing behind...
Top 10 7. Fired by Trump, EEOC official fears what the anti-discrimination agency will become Andrea Hsu/WUNC Radio When Jocelyn Samuels learned through an email late on the evening of Jan. 27 that she was...
Top 10 8. States should invest in postsecondary child care grants Stephanie Baker/New America Like so many parents in the United States, college students with kids are in dire need of...
Top 10 9. Here comes fertility politics Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Republican Party has long been against abortion. But in the last few years, some conservatives have...
Top 10 10. ‘A growing mistrust’: Resident sues Brunswick beach town over alleged unlawful actions Savanna Tenenoff/Wilmington StarNews As the Holden Beach Board of Commissioners continue to take action on big ticket projects, residents are...
Top 10 1. NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage David Malakoff/Science In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President...
Top 10 2. Whitewater outfitters say a hurricane made this river more fun, but they can’t get permits to run it Travis Loller/The Associated Press After 24 years of guiding whitewater trips on the Nolichucky River Gorge for other companies, Patrick...
Top 10 3. Midway tries to stay rural while growing as a town Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Midway, about 15 minutes south of Winston-Salem, wasn’t even a town for most of its history. The...
Top 10 4. 4,000 Garner Amazon workers part of upstart union, want $30 an hour Chris Isidore/CNN North Carolina is a state that is generally hostile to unions. Amazon is a company that is, historically,...
Top 10 5. Board of State Health Plan moves to set premiums based on salary tiers Hannah Vinueza McClellan/EducationNC During a year in which lawmakers are saying there may not be funding for raises, the State...
Top 10 6. Housing committee: ‘Problem has gotten more challenging,’ 85% price increases since 2018 Shea Carver/Port City Daily While progress has been made to the workforce housing market in Wilmington in recent years, there...