Top 10 2. DPI presents Hurricane Helene relief request, includes pay for impacted school employees Hannah Vinueza McClellan & Mebane Rash/Education NC As rescue and recovery efforts continue in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene,...
Top 10 3. N.C. Health officials issue guidelines for thousands of potentially flooded private wells Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News Flooding from Hurricane Helene may have contaminated private wells for thousands of people in western North...
Top 10 4. Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years...
Top 10 5. Wilmington looks to federal funds to replace bridges Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The city of Wilmington plans to apply for nearly $20 million in federal grant funding to help pay...
Top 10 6. Why fatal overdoses are plummeting in North Carolina Katie Peralta Soloff/Axios Raleigh The number of fatal overdoses has declined rapidly in North Carolina over the last year —...
Top 10 7. Developer still pursuing Pactiv parcel despite Helene damage Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News Hurricane Helene has dealt serious damage to Pactiv Evergreen’s shuttered Canton paper mill, but the St....
Top 10 8. Helene cuts power, damages buildings at NC colleges: ‘We had to get students off campus’ Brianna Atkinson/WUNC Radio An organization that advocates for North Carolina’s private colleges has launched a fund for campuses impacted by...
Top 10 9. Commissioners doubt they can meet housing assessment needs, discuss ‘last frontier’ of land Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Plotting is underway for New Hanover County’s next comprehensive plan, which will likely determine the fate...
Top 10 10. ‘Carolina’s for everybody’: UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts on growth, affordability, careers, and hurricane relief Aaron Keck/WCHL Chapelboro Saturday, October 12, is University Day: UNC’s annual celebration of its founding in 1793, marking the anniversary...
Top 10 1. How the North Carolina legislature left homes vulnerable to Helene Christopher Flavelle/The New York Times The amount of rain that Tropical Storm Helene unleashed over North Carolina was so intense,...
Top 10 2. Insurance commissioner candidates address storm damage in pre-election public forum Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s deadly lurch through western North Carolina, the oft-overlooked race for...
Top 10 3. Long, uneven road to recovery ahead for Western NC counties after Helene Carolina Public Press The rate of recovery and flow of information across Western North Carolina remains uneven nearly a week...
Top 10 4. Western N.C. child care programs, ‘already in a fragile state,’ hit by Helene Liz Bell & Katie Dukes/Education NC Child care in Western North Carolina was hard to come by before Hurricane Helene...
Top 10 5. The law school dean who quietly worked to overturn the election Shawn Musgrave/The Intercept On the evening of January 6, 2021 — as the Capitol Police were doing final sweeps of...
Top 10 6. Helene takes toll on Asheville music scene Brian Burns/WUNC Radio Helene ravaged western North Carolina last weekend, bringing devastation and destruction to homes and businesses throughout the...
