Top 10 7. Carolina Beach settles lawsuit with local business for $15M purchase of 9 properties Shea Carver/Port City Daily It’s the largest financial acquisition in the history of a small beach town in the southern...
Top 10 8. As North Carolina awaits ICE, congressmen back deportation proposals Alan Wooten/The Center Square Eroding North Carolina of criminals, in particular those who entered the country illegally and then broke...
Top 10 9. UNC confirms admissions essays are reviewed by Durham-based company’s technology Alice Scott/The Daily Tar Heel Documents obtained by The Daily Tar Heel revealed the use of Artificial Intelligence in the...
Top 10 10. Seeking to right the financial ship, Pilot Mountain eyes property sales Ryan Kelly/The Mount Airy News At the most recent meeting of the Town of Pilot Mountain Board of Commissioners Mayor...
Top 10 1. HCA’s purchase of Mission Health did not lead to lasting improvements, Wake Forest academic report concludes Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog The decision to sell nonprofit Mission Health to for-profit HCA Healthcare was made behind closed doors,...
Top 10 2. How Propel NC would impact one community college Emily Thomas/Education NC The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is requesting nearly $100 million from the General Assembly this...
Top 10 3. Cities are dumping this chemical in NC rivers — and getting paid to do it Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Three central North Carolina municipalities in 2024 fought — and won — for their right...
Top 10 4. Federal appeals court weighing civil rights against state sovereignty in state judicial race Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in what one law professor called a...
Top 10 5. Appeals court strikes down FTC’s rule banning add-on costs and bait-and-switch tactics Jaelyn Campbell/CBT News A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new regulations, which aimed to...
Top 10 6. Foul smell at Kings Mountain lithium mine raises local concerns Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio In Gaston County, Albemarle is draining the old Kings Mountain mine to reopen it and extract the...
Top 10 7. ‘What the f— is going on?’ Confusion, uncertainty in industry as Army contracts seemingly halted Ashley Roque, Valerie Insinna & Aaron Mehta/Breaking Defense The defense industry is in a state bordering between confusion and panic,...
Top 10 8. DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot and ChatGPT answer sensitive questions about China differently Kanis Leung/The Associated Press Chinese tech startup DeepSeek ’s new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between...
Top 10 9. Building higher in flood zones saved homes second time around Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Many who lost their homes during Fred in 2021 were hit all over again by Helene...
Top 10 10. Charlotte investor buys vacant High Point industrial buildings Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A Charlotte commercial real estate investment firm has acquired 80,500 square feet of vacant industrial...
Top 10 1. New Trump directive to federal health & research agencies could hit NC in the pocketbook Rose Hoban/NC Health News Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing...