Top 10 8. How a conspiracy-fueled group got a foothold in this hurricane-battered town The Washington Post It started with hot coffee. Hurricane Helene had just cut off this already isolated foothill town from...
Top 10 9. River Landing owner to set HQ near airport High Point Enterprise The senior-living organization that operates River Landing at Sandy Ridge has purchased a pair of adjacent office...
Top 10 10. Republican senators attack Justice Allison Riggs over her public support for abortion rights Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Three Republican state senators have accused Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs of “blatantly violating” the state Code...
Top 10 1. Opinion: Will we even try to prevent future flooding? If past is prologue, probably not John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Some documents age better than others. And some? They make you cringe – a lot. Take this...
Top 10 2. Under pressure: As the Wilmington area grows, natural resources are being threatened Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network In Brunswick County, developments that promise to bring hundreds of new homes and apartments to the...
Top 10 3. Ingles reels from storm damage. Food options in NC mountains limited. Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Ingles Markets, the Asheville-based grocery mainstay of Western North Carolina, sustained severe damage to its...
Top 10 4. Solar energy helped keep the lights on after Helene, but not how you might think Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio Buncombe County has invested over $10 million in the past few years to install solar panels in...
Top 10 5. Heat pumps were supposed to help save the planet. But they’ve run into a bump. Shannon Osaka/The Washington Post Sales of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles have soared over the last few years —...
Top 10 6. “Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious” Madeleine May, Chrissy Hallowell & Katrina Kaufman/CBS News In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election...
Top 10 7. 580-unit development under consideration, commissioner advocates for conservation Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A New Hanover County commissioner is advocating the purchase of a long-vacant property to preserve the...
Top 10 8. Rallying to help farmers feed hungry livestock Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Nine days after Helene’s flood waters drilled through the Ferguson dairy on Riverside, a caravan...
Top 10 9. Fund seeks $40M for housing Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise A new public-private venture is seeking to raise $40 million for an affordable housing loan program...
Top 10 10. State sets temporary allowable PFAS limits in groundwater Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online The state’s environmental regulatory agency has established temporary caps on the amounts of several PFAS that...
Top 10 1. NC Supreme Court ruling could shake up multibillion-dollar hospital industry Will Doran/WRAL News A new ruling from the North Carolina Supreme Court has the potential to massively reimagine the state’s...
Top 10 2. Even as conditions across western North Carolina improve, potable water remains a challenge for some Will Atwater/NC Health News Since the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina’s mountains, flooding rivers and damaging...