Top 10 7. Asheville BID tax will generate $1.25M for downtown: How will it be spent? Sarah Honosky/Asheville Citizen Times The city has selected a service provider for the newly minted Business Improvement District, which levies...
Top 10 8. Belichick signs UNC contract. Will public release end stories about his NFL future? Brian Murphy/WRAL News North Carolina and football coach Bill Belichick have made it official, releasing a signed employment agreement Thursday...
Top 10 9. Durham Council approves Brickworks rezoning Wes Platt/SouthPoint Access The massive new Brickworks project is moving forward with Durham City Council approval with a unanimous vote...
Top 10 10. UNCW filmmaker has a shot at $1M and commercial airing during Super Bowl Aidyn Fischli/Port City Daily Dylan Bradshaw stared up at the ad lighting up one of the largest billboards in Times...
Top 10 1. FEMA kicks flood victims out of hotel housing during arctic blast Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The clock ran out on hundreds of WNC families who lost their homes during Helene last...
Top 10 2. Promised lands: Western NC farmers wait for Helene aid to come. And wait. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press It is hard to overstate the damage that Tropical Storm Helene inflicted on farmers in...
Top 10 3. Federal rule could financially protect thousands of North Carolina poultry farmers Gavin Off/The Charlotte Observer Craig Watts, who once made a career of raising hundreds of thousands of chickens in North...
Top 10 4. How fentanyl producers in Mexico are adapting to a challenging market Victoria Dittmar & Paulina Ríos/InsightCrime When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations. After five...
Top 10 5. North Carolina school board member gets prison time after obstruction, extortion convictions The Associated Press A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted...
Top 10 6. ‘They’re not giving us what we need’: Orange County sheriff on ICE detainer law Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro The start of a new year in North Carolina also means a round of new laws that...
Top 10 7. Short-term rental homes pivot to shelters after Helene Helu Wang/USA Today Network Despite two days of heavy rain, property manager Rachael Lee was not expecting anything more severe...
Top 10 8. PFAS compounds found in more firefighting PPE Will Atwater/NC Health News The recent fires ravaging Los Angeles have highlighted the dangers faced in firefighting — winds, fast-moving...
Top 10 9. PowerSchool hack exposes 312,000 NC teachers’ Social Security numbers Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News About 312,000 North Carolina teachers’ social security numbers were exposed in the PowerSchool breach, the North Carolina...
Top 10 10. GOP chair stirs political drama over NHC schools committees, members say no quid-pro-quo Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily One newly minted board chair is already taking the heat after appointing members of the opposite...
Top 10 1. Opinion: City is addressing complexities of rebuilding, but it’s still a labyrinthian challenge for property owners John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog If one theme of rebuilding in a post-Helene world has emerged, it’s this: complexity. None of this...
