Top 10 2. A look at Propel NC and other legislative priorities for the N.C. Community College System Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC The State Board of Community Colleges discussed the N.C. Community College System’s (NCCCS) legislative agenda for...
Top 10 3. Liquid courage: Duke Energy not asking for forgiveness following flooding fiasco Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Scores of waterfront property owners in Mecklenburg County are slowly moving forward with government programs to...
Top 10 4. North Carolina Supreme Court passing for now on ruling if ballots in close race are valid Gary D. Robertson/The Associated Press The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing candidate in...
Top 10 5. Waynesville holds off on tougher flood elevation rules Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer An effort to enact tougher new building standards in flood-prone areas in Waynesville is quickly losing...
Top 10 6. Novant health equity team raised the rate of cancer screenings in Waughtown last year Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio When was the last time you went to the doctor? When did you last get a cancer...
Top 10 7. Asheville BID tax will generate $1.25M for downtown: How will it be spent? Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city has selected a service provider for the newly minted Business Improvement District, which levies...
Top 10 8. Belichick signs UNC contract. Will public release end stories about his NFL future? Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and football coach Bill Belichick have made it official, releasing a signed employment agreement Thursday...
Top 10 9. Durham Council approves Brickworks rezoning Wes Platt/SouthPoint Access The massive new Brickworks project is moving forward with Durham City Council approval with a unanimous vote...
Top 10 10. UNCW filmmaker has a shot at $1M and commercial airing during Super Bowl Aidyn Fischli/Port City Daily Dylan Bradshaw stared up at the ad lighting up one of the largest billboards in Times...
Top 10 1. FEMA kicks flood victims out of hotel housing during arctic blast Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The clock ran out on hundreds of WNC families who lost their homes during Helene last...
Top 10 2. Promised lands: Western NC farmers wait for Helene aid to come. And wait. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press It is hard to overstate the damage that Tropical Storm Helene inflicted on farmers in...
Top 10 3. Federal rule could financially protect thousands of North Carolina poultry farmers Gavin Off/The Charlotte Observer Craig Watts, who once made a career of raising hundreds of thousands of chickens in North...
Top 10 4. How fentanyl producers in Mexico are adapting to a challenging market Victoria Dittmar & Paulina Ríos/InsightCrime When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations. After five...
Top 10 5. North Carolina school board member gets prison time after obstruction, extortion convictions The Associated Press A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted...
Top 10 6. ‘They’re not giving us what we need’: Orange County sheriff on ICE detainer law Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro The start of a new year in North Carolina also means a round of new laws that...