Top 10 6. Despite FEMA foot dragging, sheds won’t fly as living quarters Vicki Hyatt/The Mountaineer As Haywood County flood survivors wait — and wait — for temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency housing...
Top 10 7. ‘One step forward, two steps back’ for Mid Currituck Bridge Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice The North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) will not be receiving the $425 million federal grant...
Top 10 8. Murphy: Government efficiency could be big help to veterans Alan Wooten/The Center Square A practicing physician in Congress from North Carolina, where four of six branches of the armed...
Top 10 9. Durham Public Schools approves rotational bus service plan to ease transportation crisis Chase Pellegrini de Paur/IndyWeek On Thursday night, a power outage left the Durham Public Schools board of education meeting with...
Top 10 10. At Asheville’s last Helene shelter, residents race to find housing by the new year Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times On Thanksgiving eve, Noah Laycock, 3, runs around the south Asheville former Gold’s Gym location with...
Top 10 1. Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China on Day 1 David Goldman/CNN President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China...
Top 10 2. Wastewater treatment in a box: Technology, engineers help Spruce Pine fast-track recovery from Hurricane Helene Will Atwater/NC Health News Standing on stage during a highly anticipated town meeting, microphone in hand, Spruce Pine Town Manager...
Top 10 3. Rural water systems were already in bad shape. Then Helene hit. Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio The most exciting part of the day at Spruce Pine Montessori School is when the...
Top 10 4. Time marches on. Thanksgiving nears. Yet loss from Helene lingers in Green Mountain Alex Gladden/USA Today Network Tony Johnson has lived in Green Mountain all his life. The small township is rural, mountain...
Top 10 5. General Assembly funds voucher program, impacts county schools Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot North Carolina is at the forefront of a divisive nationwide debate: Should states subsidize private...
Top 10 6. Q&A: What does House Bill 10 mean for immigration enforcement in North Carolina? Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC Radio Starting on Dec. 1, all county sheriffs in North Carolina must cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs...
Top 10 7. Eastern NC’s black bears: How hunters helped save a species Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The American black bear population is healthy on the North Carolina coast, but that hasn’t always...
Top 10 8. Group encourages landowners to consider their ‘legacy,’ protect forest in Castle Hayne Madison Lipe/Wilmington StarNews Concern about overdevelopment is nothing new in New Hanover County, but recent plans for a major housing...
Top 10 9. ‘Grow up and act like adults’: Some BOT members react to GPSG chancellor, provost no-confidence resolutions Caleb Herrera/The Daily Tar Heel In a Nov. 7 meeting, the UNC Board of Trustees addressed the ‘no-confidence resolutions’ passed...
Top 10 10. Council divided over how to proceed with new bids after recent contract failures Evey Weisblat/CityView After a disastrous experience with a contractor who defrauded the city by abandoning several parks and recreation projects,...