Top 10 5. How the Nov. 5 election will shape health policy in the coming legislative session N.C. Health News Even as former President Donald Trump coasted to victory in North Carolina, Democrats maintained control of the...
Top 10 6. Haywood County postpones property reappraisal Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A state-mandated countywide property reappraisal that was nearly complete and slated to take effect on Jan....
Top 10 7. Wicked Weed Brewing indefinitely closes Funkatorium, Cultura, staff laid off Tiana Kennell/Asheville Citizen Times On Nov. 1, Wicked Weed Brewing’s staff for its sour and barrel-aged beer-focused Funkatorium brewpub and...
Top 10 8. Local assessments reveal extent of hurricane damage Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat A little more than a month after the remnants of Hurricane Helene slammed into the High...
Top 10 9. Strong night for Dare Republicans as they sweep commissioner and ed board races Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice In an election that proved to be a good one for local Republicans and incumbents, perhaps...
Top 10 10. Travelers can now take two new nonstop flights from Wilmington Madison Lipe/Wilmington StarNews Travelers now have the option to choose from two new nonstop flights from Wilmington International Airport. Avelo...
Top 10 1. What Trump’s win means for the world’s most pressing problems Annabelle Timsit, Adela Suliman & Kelsey Ables/The Washington Post Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and people across...
Top 10 2. Democrat Stein claims victory in NC governor’s race. Robinson says he’ll reassess political future Will Doran/WRAL News Josh Stein will be North Carolina’s next governor, another ascension in his two-decade rise through the ranks...
Top 10 3. Letts appointed to EBCI Supreme Court, vacates superior court seat Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Last month, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians swore in Bradley B. Letts as the tribe’s...
Top 10 4. Beating the odds: one lane of I-40 to open in each direction by New Year’s Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Haywood County will get a Christmas miracle, though just a tad late, with the projected reopening...
Top 10 5. CVS taps former UnitedHealth exec to lead Aetna, reports Q3 earnings Jakob Emerson/Becker’s Hospital Review CVS Health has named Prem Shah as group president and Steve Nelson as the president of...
Top 10 6. Wake County election results: Cowell wins Raleigh mayor’s race in landslide, Democrats win judicial races Chloe Courtney Bohl/IndyWeek It was a good night for incumbents up and down the ballot in Wake County, where sitting...
Top 10 7. Republican Rep. Tricia Cotham ekes out narrow victory over Democratic challenger Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican Tricia Cotham appears to have narrowly won reelection to a highly contested state House seat in...
Top 10 8. North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson resigns WRAL News North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson resigned Wednesday, one day after voters elected his eventual replacement. Dobson, a...
Top 10 9. Buxton folk relieved at Corps action, ask why not sooner? Catherine Kozak/Coastal Review Online With ongoing removal of petroleum-contaminated soil from Buxton Beach, along with a considerable amount of remnant...