Top 10 3. ‘Operation Airdrop’: Volunteers take to the skies to deliver disaster aid Hannah McLeod/Smoky Mountain News Anyone on the internet knows that it can be a place of negativity and division. But...
Top 10 4. Mapping the 2023-24 school report cards Emily Antoszyk/Education NC Welcome back to Consider It Mapped, where we mark our sixth installment of mapping school performance grades...
Top 10 5. Small business disaster loan program is out of money until new funds are approved Andrea Hsu & Miguel Macias/WUNC Radio The Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program has run out of money, it announced...
Top 10 6. UnitedHealth seeks ‘less abrasion’ with hospitals Rylee Wilson/Becker’s Hospital Review UnitedHealth Group is seeing “unusually aggressive and high unit cost asks” from hospitals, CEO Andrew Witty...
Top 10 7. Comments about Wake teacher are ‘bullying,’ school board member says Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News Recent comments online about a Martin Middle School teacher are distractions and offensive, Wake school board and...
Top 10 8. Barns, fields, animals, crops, and dairy among Haywood flood casualties Vicki Hyatt & Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer From Cruso and the West Fork to Jonathan Creek and lower Crabtree,...
Top 10 9. Government-controlled weather? Local candidate perpetuates claims, debunked by UNCW researcher Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Rumors swirling in the wake of recent hurricanes, some of which have led to threats toward...
Top 10 10. Judge signs order for public school athletes’ NIL deals Langston Wertz Jr./The Charlotte Observer North Carolina’s public school athletes can monetize their NIL rights now that a Wake County...
Top 10 1. Mark Robinson sues CNN and ex-porn store clerk, alleging reports about him were defamatory Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN and a former clerk at a porn store in Greensboro on...
Top 10 2. Is the Helene flood mud bad for you? Advice on how to protect yourself Katie Myers & Lilly Knoepp/Blue Ridge Public Radio Helene caused catastrophic flooding across the region, particularly in the French Broad...
Top 10 3. Leland could annex 1,100-acre site once eyed for baseball Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Land once eyed for a minor-league baseball stadium development could now officially become part of the town of...
Top 10 4. Walgreens to close 1,200 stores as U.S. pharmacies struggle to define a new role Tom Murphy/The Associated Press Walgreens is planning to close around 1,200 locations, as the drugstore chain and its rivals struggle...
Top 10 5. Food bank bounces back from Helene to tackle hunger crisis in western NC Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News The staff of the Asheville-based Manna Foodbank tried their best to prepare for Hurricane Helene. Workers...
Top 10 6. Despite flood damage, a western North Carolina school district reopens Liz Schlemmer/WUNC Radio On the day before Helene hit, the last thing McDowell County Schools’ Superintendent Tracy Grit did was...
Top 10 7. Reports of missing children in Spruce Pine are false, county says Kara Fohner/USA Today Network Reports of more than 160 missing children in Spruce Pine are not true. In fact, there...
