Top 10 8. Voters in western North Carolina will go to the polls amidst recovery from Helene Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio On Thursday, Sept. 26, John Noce was in Graham County, just above Cherokee, on the southwestern tip...
Top 10 9. City mulls future of century-old Durham Athletic Park Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh For nearly 100 years, the Durham Athletic Park, the well-known setting of the movie “Bull Durham,” has...
Top 10 10. U.S. Department of Education announces successful first beta test for 2025-26 FAFSA Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced on Tuesday, Oct. 15, the launch of the second...
Top 10 1. Building codes led North Carolina to lose out on $70M in disaster prep funds, state says Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline As North Carolina rebuilds from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, the loss of $70 million in FEMA...
Top 10 2. Fact Check: Trump claims Gov. Cooper blocked Helene aid to western North Carolina Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio Former President Donald Trump has accused Gov. Roy Cooper of blocking aid to victims of Helene in...
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...
