Top 10 8. Helene cuts power, damages buildings at NC colleges: ‘We had to get students off campus’ Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio An organization that advocates for North Carolina’s private colleges has launched a fund for campuses impacted by...
Top 10 9. Commissioners doubt they can meet housing assessment needs, discuss ‘last frontier’ of land Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Plotting is underway for New Hanover County’s next comprehensive plan, which will likely determine the fate...
Top 10 10. ‘Carolina’s for everybody’: UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts on growth, affordability, careers, and hurricane relief Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro Saturday, October 12, is University Day: UNC’s annual celebration of its founding in 1793, marking the anniversary...
Top 10 1. How the North Carolina legislature left homes vulnerable to Helene Christopher Flavelle/The New York Times The amount of rain that Tropical Storm Helene unleashed over North Carolina was so intense,...
Top 10 2. Insurance commissioner candidates address storm damage in pre-election public forum Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s deadly lurch through western North Carolina, the oft-overlooked race for...
Top 10 3. Long, uneven road to recovery ahead for Western NC counties after Helene Carolina Public Press The rate of recovery and flow of information across Western North Carolina remains uneven nearly a week...
Top 10 4. Western N.C. child care programs, ‘already in a fragile state,’ hit by Helene Liz Bell & Katie Dukes/Education NC Child care in Western North Carolina was hard to come by before Hurricane Helene...
Top 10 5. The law school dean who quietly worked to overturn the election Shawn Musgrave/The Intercept On the evening of January 6, 2021 — as the Capitol Police were doing final sweeps of...
Top 10 6. Helene takes toll on Asheville music scene Brian Burns/WUNC Radio Helene ravaged western North Carolina last weekend, bringing devastation and destruction to homes and businesses throughout the...
Top 10 7. AGAIN: Horrific storm damage will remake Western North Carolina Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A bouquet of flowers, likely on someone’s porch or kitchen table hours earlier, lies on a...
Top 10 8. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports file antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio Huntersville-based 23XI Racing — co-owned by Michael Jordan — and Mooresville-based Front Row Motorsports have filed...
Top 10 9. NC wetland regulations remain in dispute a year after state stripped protections Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A federal ruling and state law last year removed protections for vast expanses of North Carolina’s...
Top 10 10. Providence Place bought for $43M Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A large portfolio of High Point real estate has changed hands. EveryAge, a nonprofit operator...
Top 10 1. Biden visits Carolinas, Harris goes to Georgia to view Hurricane Helene damage Rebecca Shabad/NBC News President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage...
Top 10 2. Climate change is fueling extreme heat. For outdoor workers, that means life-threatening work conditions Aaron Sánchez-Guerra & Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio This summer, it happened again. A migrant farmworker died during a record heat wave...