Top 10 5. North Carolina residents condemn EPA’s PFAS regulation delay Will Atwater/NC Health News People who have been struggling to clean up decades of industrial pollution in the lower Cape...
Top 10 6. A Wilkesboro church with empty space, a child care center in need, and a rallied community create a ‘miracle’ — and a model Liz Bell/EducationNC In the last 18 years, Wilkes County has lost 56 child care programs, 67% of its child care...
Top 10 7. Activists plan protest against ‘unnecessary’ RDU development of popular Lake Crabtree Park Trails Max Tendler/WUNC Radio Some 148 acres of multi-use trails in Wake County’s most popular park close permanently June 1 to...
Top 10 8. Is there a doctor on the beach? NC Outer Banks a tourism hub, but a health care desert. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press This summer, 5 million tourists will descend on 200 miles of remote North Carolina coastline....
Top 10 9. How accurate are the claims? Examining the letter urging Price to shut down DKU Claire Cranford, Ana Despa & Ishita Vaid/The (Duke) Chronicle Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) sent a...
Top 10 10. OA Defense planting roots in Robbins Jonathan Bym/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Paul Ross was tired of his weekly cross-country commute for work, so he’s moving his...
Top 10 1. NC budget proposal could cut crucial funding for state’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Senate’s proposal for the upcoming biennial state budget includes more than $180 million in...
Top 10 2. Cape Fear Memorial Bridge: NCDOT engineer says tolling only current option to fund $800M gap Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The focus of conversation surrounding the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge has largely taken place on the...
Top 10 3. Stopping a ‘moral obscenity’: Senate Judiciary Committee expresses support for PBM reform Rebecca Pifer/Healthcare Dive There’s still significant support in Congress for overhauling the pharmacy benefit manager industry, after reforms almost made...
Top 10 4. EPA Administrator Zeldin says PFAS limits may get tougher, downplays layoffs Mark Hibbs/Coastal Review Online The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaking Wednesday during a Senate budget hearing in Washington,...
Top 10 5. NC election from 2023 remains unresolved amid a lengthy court battle Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio While the legal battle over last year’s N.C. Supreme Court election is now settled, it’s not the...
Top 10 6. Duke’s Maluach shows how nation’s immigration changes could impact college athletes Brian Murphy & Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News Nina King spent the second half of Duke University’s most important men’s basketball game...
Top 10 7. Exclusive: Payton McNabb’s victim speaks out Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News On May 2, 2024, a brief, awkward moment inside a women’s restroom at Western Carolina University...
Top 10 8. Experts say French Broad is in surprisingly good shape for recreational use as river outfitters prepare to open tubing season John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog While you might not be wowed by the frequent flotillas of brightly colored tubes drifting down the...
Top 10 9. First black Hillsborough mayor Horace Johnson dies at 95 Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro Horace Johnson, a longtime elected official who became the first Black mayor of the Town of Hillsborough,...
