Top 10 3. More than a medical school Michelle Crouch/NC Health News For years, Charlotte has been the largest U.S. city without a four-year medical school. By next...
Top 10 4. Wilmington dockworkers take to the picket line as ports face work stoppage from ILA strike Shea Carver/Port City Daily A line of picketers chanted into bullhorns and held signs near the Wilmington port along Shipyard...
Top 10 5. NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson didn’t vote on state’s Helene emergency declaration, records show Paul Specht/WRAL News As a deadly storm system approached the southeastern U.S. last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office...
Top 10 6. ‘Outrageous heroism’: Avery County continues search and rescues after floodwaters recede Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Avery County is still conducting water rescues for individuals caught in last week’s flooding from Tropical Storm...
Top 10 7. Officials: Helene is ‘the worst natural disaster’ in Watauga County’s modern history Moss Brennan, Luke Barber & Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat Officials are describing Hurricane Helene’s impacts as the worst natural disaster...
Top 10 8. Tim Sweeney says Epic Games is now ‘financially sound’ after last year’s layoffs and Bandcamp fumble Tyler Wilde/Yahoo!Finance Like so many tech companies, Epic Games grew aggressively at the start of the 2020s and then suddenly...
Top 10 9. NC public school students can immediately profit from NIL, Wake County judge orders Langston Wertz Jr./The News & Observer North Carolina’s public school athletes won’t have to wait any longer to monetize their...
Top 10 10. City to consider downtown bid, land exchange with Trask Company Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Wilmington leaders will consider the sale of two tracts of city-owned land on the north end of downtown...
Top 10 1. Workers strike at Wilmington’s port, halting operations Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz International Longshoremen’s Association workers at the Port of Wilmington went on strike Tuesday amid broader work stoppages at...
Top 10 2. CVS explores options including potential break-up, sources say Anirban Sen/Yahoo!Fianance CVS Health is exploring options that could include a break-up of the company to separate its retail and...
Top 10 3. ‘It’s managed chaos’: Western NC hospitals challenged but operational in Helene’s wake Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News Historic rainfall and flooding brought by the remnants of Hurricane Helene have pushed western North Carolina...
Top 10 4. Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South Seth Borenstein/The Associated Press More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week...
Top 10 5. North Carolina floods threaten mines key to global electronics industry Eva Dou/The Washington Post Flooding in North Carolina has imperiled the operations of mines that produce the world’s purest quartz...
Top 10 6. The vote must go on. Planning elections in a disaster area. Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press The North Carolina State Board of Elections released the beginnings of a plan Monday to address...
Top 10 7. Man hikes 11 miles, 2,200 feet high to reach his parents in NC mountains following Helene’s destruction Dianne Gallagher & Michelle Watson/CNN It had been 48 hours since the winds and rains from Hurricane Helene ripped through...