Top 10 6. A moment to celebrate: Haywood’s Recovery Court graduates second participant Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Last Friday wasn’t Mark Beam’s first time facing a judge at the defendant’s table in Haywood...
Top 10 7. Morganton Park North continues multi-family trend Frank Daniels IV/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Apartments under construction along the north side of Morganton Road in Southern Pines show...
Top 10 8. Boone Walmart reopens with new look after suffering extreme damage Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat Nearly three months after it was severely damaged by Hurricane Helene’s flooding, the Boone Walmart has...
Top 10 9. What you need to know about 4 new North Carolina laws taking effect Jan. 1 Sarah Gleason/Wilmington StarNews For North Carolinians, a new year means a few new laws, and provisions within them, that are...
Top 10 10. Nuisance law used to shut down Spring Lake sports bar Greg Barnes/CityView The day Errol Jarman became Spring Lake’s interim police chief in April, his officers told him that the...
Top 10 1. NC attorney weighs in on Helene FEMA aid application process Santiago Ochoa/WFDD Radio Three months after Tropical Storm Helene tore through North Carolina, the federal government has committed half a...
Top 10 2. Patient seen in Duke University Hospital cafeteria after emergency department pipe burst Shaun Gallagher/WRAL News Cleanup at Duke University Hospital entered its second day Saturday after a burst pipe flooded the hospital’s...
Top 10 3. ‘Hard times on top of hard times’: Lessons learned from families and child care providers following Helene Jessica Wakeman/NC Health News Three weeks after Helene hit western North Carolina, Marcia Whitney thought she was close to a...
Top 10 4. Esparza reflects on historic appointment as first NC Latino Cabinet member Julian Berger/WFAE Radio Gabriel Esparza, who resides in Charlotte, will become North Carolina’s first Latino Cabinet member when he’s sworn...
Top 10 5. GameChangers 2024: Crime cashes in on migration boom Parker Asmann & Henry Shuldiner/Insight Crime As a growing number of people fled their homes across Latin America and the...
Top 10 6. Two women involved in Edward Teach controversy dispute public apology Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A local brewery and its owner concluded a year-long defamation lawsuit triggered by a viral social...
Top 10 7. Canton auditor praises staff but warns of complications Jimmy Potts/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Town of Canton received a clean bill of financial health during its most recent audit,...
Top 10 8. Airport makes long way back from COVID Paul B. Johnson/High Point Enterprise Piedmont Triad International Airport leaders hope that passenger counts in 2025 ascend to levels not...
Top 10 9. School board considers options for Jackson Community School Hannah McLeod/Smoky Mountain News Jackson Community School — Jackson County’s alternative learning center — is the most expensive school in...
Top 10 10. Dog eat dog: The cutthroat Midwest breeding ring behind North Carolina pet stores Brooke Elliott/WCHL Chapelboro Stores across the state are running flash sales on puppies for the holiday season: Friendly Pets in...