Top 10 6. In NC attorney general suit against HCA Healthcare, judge dismisses counterclaims Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times In a Dec. 6 ruling, a North Carolina Business Court judge dismissed counterclaims HCA Healthcare filed...
Top 10 7. New loan program will grow small businesses in economically disadvantaged areas in Fayetteville Evey Weisblat/CityView Businesses in low-to-moderate income areas in Fayetteville could be eligible to receive up to $750,000 under a new...
Top 10 8. UHC murder suspect railed about U.S. health care. Here’s what he missed Selena Simmons-Duffin/Public Radio East In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing, there’s been a lot of attention on...
Top 10 9. Endowment announces new board chair and vice chair Peter Castagno/Port City Daily The New Hanover County endowment announced Shannon Winslow will take over as chair of the organization’s...
Top 10 10. Guilford school board’s bad blood resurfaces Guy Lucas/High Point Enterprise The day he first took a seat on the Guilford County Board of Education about 15...
Top 10 1. Mill sewage deal ends in March: What’s Canton’s next move? Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The town of Canton has less than four months to figure out how its wastewater will...
Top 10 2. Rep. Edwards: Federal bill will help WNC water projects and dams Deirdra Funcheon/Hendersonville Times-News After the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024,...
Top 10 3. Insurance CEOs reflect on industry backlash Rylee Wilson/Becker’s Payer Issues Payer CEOs are reckoning with the public vitriol directed at the industry in the wake of...
Top 10 4. FEMA lags behind its prior projection as hundreds of Helene victims await temporary housing Sarah Krueger/WRAL News FEMA approved 536 households impacted by Hurricane Helene for temporary housing units, which are move-in ready trailers....
Top 10 5. Helene recovery bill would fund lawsuit blocking coastal protection rules Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Two regulatory agencies face a hearing in a lawsuit over coastal protection policies representing a broader...
Top 10 6. Q&A: Chancellor Lee Roberts discusses his first semester as permanent chancellor Ananya Cox/The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday marked the end of classes for UNC students, and the end of the first...
Top 10 7. Nowhere to hide: Microplastics are polluting western North Carolina watersheds Will Atwater/NC Health News People use single-use plastics multiple times every day — shopping bags, fast-food containers, disposable forks and...
Top 10 8. Legislation introduced to incentivize land sales to DOD for readiness, environmental protection Morgan Sweeney/The Center Square U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Ted Budd, R-N.C., have introduced legislation that would help incentivize...
Top 10 9. Wake County principal says students using AI is a growing issue Gilat Melamed/CBS 17 News A Wake County principal is letting parents know artificial intelligence is becoming a problem at his...
Top 10 10. Chimney Rock opens to visitors for 1 day after Tropical Storm Helene devastation Deirdra Funcheon/Hendersonville Times-News For one day only visitors can access the village of Chimney Rock to see how it has...