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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
3. Decade after backing climate science denial law, Rouzer seeks to restructure FEMA disaster funding
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Rep. David Rouzer and Sen. Thom Tillis are seeking to restructure federal aid for catastrophic storms...
4. With no running water, Asheville finds other ways to flush thousands of toilets
Joel Rose & Rolando Arrieta/WFAE Radio At a public housing complex, volunteers knock on apartment doors offering assistance with an...
5. Fall’s fate in limbo: merchants fear ‘don’t visit’ message will be hard to unwind
Becky Johnson/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer The tourism industry that relies on the fall leaf season to sustain it through the leaner...
6. Copyright law violation? Mark Robinson campaign used photos from freelancer without permission
Dave DeWitt/WUNC Radio Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor used images captured by freelancer Lynn Hey, originally published by WUNC, on...