Top 10 9. Henderson election board member to remain on board after email to GOP state lawmakers Kimberly King/WLOS News Clay Eddleman, the chairman of Henderson County’s Election Board, addressed about 50 citizens on Monday, Sept. 16,...
Top 10 10. Opposing plans delay decision on increasing accessory dwellings in Waynesville Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It’s back to the drawing board for a proposal that would allow Waynesville property owners to...
Local Morrisville takes its turn under LGC microscope The same undercurrent surfaced earlier in last week’s meeting as LGC members weighed whether to give Morrisville officials permission to...
Top 10 1. An unconventional Chancellor keeps his cool Paul Woolverton/CityView The Sandhills summer put a sheen on the forehead of Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison on...
Top 10 2. Who is Ryan Routh? A Greensboro man is charged in the attempted assassination of Trump Danielle Battaglia/The (Raleigh) News & Observer A North Carolina man found himself in custody Sunday after the Secret Service’s advance...
Top 10 3. Massive blaze struck Croatan National Forest in 2023. Next fire on NC coast could be much worse. Jack Igelman/Carolina Public Press On Wednesday April 19, 2023, a campfire may have sparked a wildfire in a pine forest...
Top 10 4. ICE cooperation bill could have impact on immigrant health Anne Blythe/NC Health News Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn becomes animated when talking about how immigrant communities are thrust into the state and...
Top 10 5. What Macon County’s new soil ordinance means for the county Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio Macon County commissioners have curbed local restrictions that aimed to reduce soil erosion and stream...
Top 10 6. Board of Commissioners chair candidates Amanda Edwards, Van Duncan clash over his acceptance of $125K retention bonus John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog As former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan was winding down his third term in office in 2017,...
Top 10 7. Lumberton residents push back against high utility bills Ben Rappaport/Border Belt Independent Danny Parsley and his family were excited to move from northern Virginia to Lumberton, where they...
Top 10 8. Summerfield Town Council hires town manager NW Observer Summerfield is getting a permanent manager: Charles “Twig’” Rollins from the eastern North Carolina town of Magnolia. The...
Top 10 9. Illinois man found dead on Vanco Mill Road Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch On Sept. 11, Vance County Sheriff’s deputies found 21-year-old Javion Magee at 285 Vanco Mill...
Top 10 10. Superior Court judge dismisses Wilmington crime lab case, former lab director plans appeal Aaleah McConnell/WHQR The long-contested civil case filed by the former director of the Wilmington Crime Lab was officially dismissed by...
Local DOT awards grants for EV chargers The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded contracts worth a combined $5.9 million to six business that will install WV...
Top 10 1. Low pay, bad behavior and competing cash: Why NC schools struggle to hire bus drivers Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News School bus drivers in some of North Carolina’s biggest counties are being driven away by disjointed workdays,...