Top 10 7. AGAIN: Horrific storm damage will remake Western North Carolina Cory Vaillancourt/Smoky Mountain News A bouquet of flowers, likely on someone’s porch or kitchen table hours earlier, lies on a...
Top 10 8. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports file antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR Kenneth Lee Jr./WFAE Radio Huntersville-based 23XI Racing — co-owned by Michael Jordan — and Mooresville-based Front Row Motorsports have filed...
Top 10 9. NC wetland regulations remain in dispute a year after state stripped protections Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A federal ruling and state law last year removed protections for vast expanses of North Carolina’s...
Top 10 10. Providence Place bought for $43M Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A large portfolio of High Point real estate has changed hands. EveryAge, a nonprofit operator...
Top 10 1. Biden visits Carolinas, Harris goes to Georgia to view Hurricane Helene damage Rebecca Shabad/NBC News President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage...
Top 10 2. Climate change is fueling extreme heat. For outdoor workers, that means life-threatening work conditions Aaron Sánchez-Guerra & Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio This summer, it happened again. A migrant farmworker died during a record heat wave...
Top 10 3. More than a medical school Michelle Crouch/NC Health News For years, Charlotte has been the largest U.S. city without a four-year medical school. By next...
Top 10 4. Wilmington dockworkers take to the picket line as ports face work stoppage from ILA strike Shea Carver/Port City Daily A line of picketers chanted into bullhorns and held signs near the Wilmington port along Shipyard...
Top 10 5. NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson didn’t vote on state’s Helene emergency declaration, records show Paul Specht/WRAL News As a deadly storm system approached the southeastern U.S. last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office...
Top 10 6. ‘Outrageous heroism’: Avery County continues search and rescues after floodwaters recede Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Avery County is still conducting water rescues for individuals caught in last week’s flooding from Tropical Storm...
Top 10 7. Officials: Helene is ‘the worst natural disaster’ in Watauga County’s modern history Moss Brennan, Luke Barber & Nick Fogleman/The Watauga Democrat Officials are describing Hurricane Helene’s impacts as the worst natural disaster...
Top 10 8. Tim Sweeney says Epic Games is now ‘financially sound’ after last year’s layoffs and Bandcamp fumble Tyler Wilde/Yahoo!Finance Like so many tech companies, Epic Games grew aggressively at the start of the 2020s and then suddenly...
Top 10 9. NC public school students can immediately profit from NIL, Wake County judge orders Langston Wertz Jr./The News & Observer North Carolina’s public school athletes won’t have to wait any longer to monetize their...
Top 10 10. City to consider downtown bid, land exchange with Trask Company Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Wilmington leaders will consider the sale of two tracts of city-owned land on the north end of downtown...
Top 10 1. Workers strike at Wilmington’s port, halting operations Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz International Longshoremen’s Association workers at the Port of Wilmington went on strike Tuesday amid broader work stoppages at...
