Top 10 7. Pender County Schools propose remedy to bus driver shortage: higher pay, bus radios, extra support Alexa Wandersee/Port City Daily After several years of struggling to keep bus drivers employed, a new plan of action to...
Top 10 8. New state law confusing land use planning group Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The Moore County Land Use Plan Steering Committee is looking to finish its work and...
Top 10 9. Rep. Robert Reives discusses new leadership in North Carolina’s General Assembly Andrew Stuckey/WCHL Chapelboro The North Carolina General Assembly got the 2025 legislative session started earlier this month, and the leadership...
Top 10 10. HPU donates to city revitalization Paul B. Johnson/The High Point Enterprise High Point University has donated $250,000 to Business High Point for the development of...
Top 10 1. Sports betting brought in $21 million for NC’s public universities. Here’s how they’re spending it. Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio Many athletic directors at the state’s public universities have gotten used to pinching pennies to run their...
Top 10 2. Child care is the priority of Watauga County business leaders for Helene recovery and beyond Liz Bell/Education NC The Saturday in September after Hurricane Helene hit Watauga County, David Jackson found himself walking the aisles...
Top 10 3. Attorney general pledges to continue fight against Pactiv Evergreen Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer North Carolina’s new attorney general, Jeff Jackson, made a stop in Canton on Thursday to discuss...
Top 10 4. ‘Taking dictation from the Hornets’: City attorneys say Charlotte economic development leader misled City Council Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio As the city of Charlotte was negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal to help build a new practice facility...
Top 10 5. How Trump’s expected executive actions could impact North Carolina Brian Murphy & Will Doran/WRAL News Republican President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, vowing swift action...
Top 10 6. OrthoCarolina plans to sell its physical therapy business to a private-equity backed firm Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & Charlotte Ledger OrthoCarolina, one of the nation’s largest independently owned orthopedic practices, is close to...
Top 10 7. Southport planning board discusses 2050 plan, ETJ concerns linger Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A Brunswick County town is in the final stages of finalizing a draft comprehensive plan to...
Top 10 8. Election directors in NC are glad to finally get a break — for now Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press Between late September and the holiday break, Pasquotank County Election Director Janae Hedgepeth didn’t take a...
Top 10 9. City: Few impacts from code reform law Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise High Point officials say the city is already compliant with provisions of a new state...
Top 10 10. Winston-Salem police say information should have been released earlier in shooting of top Robinson aide Paul Garber/WFDD Radio Winston-Salem’s chief of police says the department should have been more forthright with information about a shooting...
Local Charlotte water There’s a water-rights battle shaping up in the Catawba River basin that may generate a push for legislative intervention during...
