Top 10 8. High Point Council sets reparations priorities Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise The City Council has chosen the top priorities to implement from the One High Point Commission...
Top 10 9. Unscrupulous parties may seek to capitalize on Helene, county warns Ryan Kelly/Mount Airy News Those affected by Hurricane Helene have been on the receiving end in the past two weeks...
Top 10 10. Watauga BOE approves Valle Crucis School student relocation plan Moss Brennan/The Watauga Democrat The Watauga County Board of Education has approved a Valle Crucis School relocation plan for students...
Top 10 1. Republican lawsuits target rules for overseas voters, but those ballots are already sent Christina A. Cassidy & Nicholas Riccardi/The Associated Press The latest method of voting to fall into the political crosshairs is...
Top 10 2. North Carolina authorities arrest armed man after threats against FEMA workers Brianna Sacks & Dan Lamothe/The Washington Post Federal emergency response personnel directed employees operating Saturday in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C.,...
Top 10 3. Barely 1% of Buncombe structures carried flood insurance, data show Victoria A. Ifatusin/Asheville Watchdog Buncombe homeowners hit hardest by flood damage from Hurricane Helene will likely face enormous costs to...
Top 10 4. Why does child care feel so expensive now? Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News With the end of pandemic-era federal supports for child care centers earlier this year, many centers...
Top 10 5. 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 6. On football Saturdays and Sundays, it’s anti-trans ads all the time Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio I watch a lot of football. Which means I have seen — on a seemingly endless loop...
Top 10 7. ‘The interstate has basically gone into the river’: I-40 through Pigeon Gorge hit by Helene Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The Pigeon River scoured away the mountainside that held up the roadbed. Now that roadbed is...
Top 10 8. On the ground with Fort Liberty’s storm relief teams Morgan Casey/CityView “You’re gonna need these,” says a soldier as she tosses a pair of hand warmers to anyone ready...
Top 10 9. Climate-driven insurance hikes are making affordable housing even harder to build Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR Highlands Village Apartments in New Bern, NC, was developed by Norco Management, but rising interest rates and insurance...
Top 10 10. ‘Environmental injustice’? Tyler Davis/The (Henderson) Daily Dispatch Kerr Lake Solar, a nearly 600-acre installation planned for White Farm Lane near Bullocksville, has...
Top 10 1. Federal flood maps underestimated risk in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Helene Kevin Crowe, Shannon Osaka & John Muyskens/The Washington Post The federal government’s flood maps, which are used nationwide to signal...
Top 10 2. Two weeks later. Taking stock of storm recovery across Western NC, county-by-county Carolina Public Press For much of Western North Carolina, there was everything that happened before Sept. 27 when Helene swept...
