Top 10 1. Campaign to elect Democrats didn’t give money to three of party’s statewide candidates Colin Campbell/WUNC A WUNC review of this year’s campaign finance reports show the Democratic Leadership Committee directed more than 80%...
Top 10 2. Company announces $1.5B investment at ILM WilmingtonBiz Frontier Scientific Solutions, a temperature-controlled storage and transportation company serving the life sciences industry, announced its plans to develop...
Top 10 3. Damaged infrastructure creating challenges for social services in NC disaster counties Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press From monitoring suspected child abuse and neglect cases to accounting for children in foster care to...
Top 10 4. NC senator allegedly tells woman with concerns about abortion law to ‘move to China’ Maggie Newland/CBS 17 News A video going viral on TikTok is raising questions about a North Carolina lawmaker’s alleged response...
Top 10 5. March toward normal turbidity continues, as third coagulation treatment is underway for Asheville’s water John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog A third round of in-reservoir turbidity treatment started Wednesday at the North Fork Reservoir, as a crucial...
Top 10 6. The love/hate debate over fluoride in water is bubbling in NC Anne Blythe/NC Health News As President-elect Donald Trump announces key members of his next administration, many in the oral health...
Top 10 7. WS/FCS Board of Education votes to increase pay for teacher assistants Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education voted to approve a compensation plan that would put $500,000...
Top 10 8. Brunswick files stop-work order against Wilmington-based developer with multiple NHC violations Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A prominent land developer in the tri-county region faces a stop-work order for excavating dirt and...
Top 10 9. I-40 crash update: how driver passed barricades + troopers lowered on winches Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Six barricades: that’s how many barricades the driver circumvented before plowing off a missing section of...
Top 10 10. HCA Healthcare asks judge to toss Buncombe lawsuit; Responds to AG Stein Jacob Biba/Asheville Citizen Times HCA Healthcare is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit Buncombe County filed against the...
Top 10 1. NC drug overdose deaths appear to be dropping. Why? Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Just as substance use experts celebrated a somewhat mysterious drop in drug overdose deaths across North...
Top 10 2. Local builders, real estate pros see potential gains, unknowns in election results Cece Nunn/WilmingtonBiz Local and state election results will hopefully give a boost to homebuilders – and housing affordability – in...
Top 10 3. Former top NC political donor Lindberg pleads guilty in $2 billion fraud The Carolina Journal Greg Lindberg, once North Carolina’s top election campaign donor, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges connected to...
Top 10 4. Meet the biggest campaign donors in NC’s election Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Tens of millions of dollars were spent on this year’s North Carolina campaigns, and much of it...
Top 10 5. Republican control in Washington could mean trouble for expanded Medicaid in North Carolina Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline Health insurance coverage on which millions of Americans rely — Medicaid and plans purchased through the Affordable...