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...
Top 10 5. New analysis finds Duke spent $8.9B on failed nuclear projects Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A renewable energy advocacy group is urging Gov. Josh Stein to oppose legislation that would allow...
Top 10 6. ‘All the sauce has got to work.’ NC Democratic strategists cook up recipes for upcoming elections. Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press When Anderson Clayton took control of the North Carolina Democratic Party at 25 years old, she...
Top 10 7. If NC spent more sports betting tax revenue on college athletics, how much could schools get? Mary Helen Moore/NC Newsroom Sports betting brought in $128 million in taxes the first year it was legal in North...
Top 10 8. Norfolk Southern will rebuild Old Fort Loops, key section of railway east of Asheville Felicia Sonmez/Blue Ridge Public Radio Norfolk Southern will rebuild a key section of track east of Asheville, officials confirmed Tuesday....
Top 10 9. Up in smoke: Federal cuts threaten to derail NC’s progress on tobacco prevention Jaymie Baxley & Rose Hoban/NC Health News Sally Herndon has spent more than three decades working to get North Carolinians...
