Top 10 5. 3 Ozempic updates: Competition, warnings and potential uses Paige Twenter/Becker’s Hospital Review GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro might influence the volume of all-cause hospital admissions and bariatric...
Top 10 6. In rural Avery County, Helene washed away one of the only dental clinics Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News When your house is flooded and all your soggy belongings are piled on the street in...
Top 10 7. Hospital CEO: Regulators lift hospital’s immediate jeopardy status Drew C. Wilson/The Wilson Times The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has officially removed Wilson Medical Center’s immediate jeopardy...
Top 10 8. State of the waterways: Water Quality Advisory Committee releases new report Hannah McLeod/Smoky Mountain News The Water Quality Advisory Committee has released its latest report detailing potential impacts of revising the...
Top 10 9. 90-year-old Helene survivor: ‘Astronomical’ expense to rebuild Derek Draplin/The Center Square The long rebuilding process is just beginning for many in Asheville, North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene...
Top 10 10. City, county officials hear about development; Lee, Harnett exploring drug court Caleb M. Soptelean/The Sanford Herald A joint meeting of officials from Sanford, Broadway and Lee County on Thursday morning included...
Top 10 1. After Helene, Asheville public housing evictions continue. Residents have ‘nowhere to go’ Will Hofmann/Asheville Citizen Times In late September, Shelia Yarborough made her way from her quaint Deaverview apartment in West Asheville...
Top 10 2. Number of vouchers up 4,594 after expansion of school choice Mebane Rash/Education NC In 2023, the N.C. General Assembly passed a state budget that included what Republicans called the “largest...
Top 10 3. Where the trees once stood The Washington Post There’s a tranquility to western North Carolina’s forests. The quiet here is part of the reason Leo...
Top 10 4. Goebel’s run for school board seat hurt GOP, but says it wasn’t ‘sabotage’ Camdyn Bruce/Greensboro News & Record Former Republican Bill Goebel denies intentionally playing the role of spoiler in running unaffiliated in...
Top 10 5. Audio: Mecklenburg Sheriff McFadden said white captain was better than Black captains Ryan Oehrli/The Charlotte Observer County Sheriff Garry McFadden disparaged staff members and said he would never trust them, an audio...
Top 10 6. Former Wilmington Police officers claim department leadership creating toxic environment Connor Smith/WECT After 25 years in the Wilmington Police Department, Mike Fanta says it only took a couple of months...
Top 10 7. Bennett, Saint Augustine’s partner with Duke to increase Black student representation in medicine Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Two of the state’s private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are partnering with Duke University to...
Top 10 8. Absentee ballot count ticks up in NHC, county leadership and state elections staff at odds Alexa Wandersee/Port City Daily New Hanover County leadership is on the books for a meeting with state board of elections...
Top 10 9. How CVS Health’s new CEO plans to shore up Aetna’s finances: 5 notes Rylee Wilson/Becker’s Payer Issues CVS Health’s new CEO is prepared to make “hard choices” to turn around Aetna’s performance. On...