Top 10 3. ‘This sets the precedent’: Surf City rejects 99-unit development Peter Castagno/Port City Daily A proposed residential development failed to garner support in Surf City after a council member raised...
Top 10 4. This mountain hamlet hit by Helene flooding preps for a winter without power Jennifer Ludden/WFAE Radio Fewer than 300 people live in this tiny mountain hamlet, but their ties to this place are...
Top 10 5. 17 months after deadly SouthPark blaze, Charlotte Fire reveals plan to prevent another Nora O’Neill/The Charlotte Observer Charlotte Fire Department officials said they have a plan to improve rescues and avoid fires like...
Top 10 6. State senate candidate reinstated to assistant principal job after monthlong suspension Emily Walkenhorst/WRAL News A Wake County state senate candidate has been reinstated to his job as assistant principal of an...
Top 10 7. Brunswick commissioners mull development moratorium Savanna Tenenoff/Brunswick Beacon The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners have directed county staff to investigate the county’s need for a...
Top 10 8. Dare County subpoenas received from U.S. Attorney can now be viewed by the public Mark Jurkowitz/Outer Banks Voice Dare County has now provided links to the two subpoenas, dated Oct. 2, from the U....
Top 10 9. Banner Elk urges voluntary evacuation due to sewer system damage Paul Garber/WFDD Radio October is usually a time when the town of Banner Elk is welcoming tourists to explore the...
Top 10 10. CVS lays off 400+ at Aetna headquarters Rylee Wilson/Becker’s CVS Health will lay off 416 employees at Aetna’s headquarters in Hartford, Conn. In a WARN notice filed...
Top 10 1. Food deliveries, aerial searches and hugs: All in a day’s work for National Guard after Helene Jay Price/WUNC Radio Early in the morning at the National Guard aviation facility in Salisbury, North Carolina, big fork trucks...
Top 10 2. Helene recovery is more political online than on the ground Jeff Brady & Liz Baker/WFAE Radio It’s election season, so maybe it’s no surprise that the federal response to damage...
Top 10 3. Court of Appeals revives property owners’ destroyed dams lawsuit against Fayetteville Paul Woolverton/CityView Western Fayetteville residents whose private lakes and dams were damaged or destroyed in Hurricane Matthew in 2016 may...
Top 10 4. Officials ask for weekend ‘pause’ on unscheduled donation deliveries to Watauga Moss Brennan/Watauga Democrat Officials in Watauga County are asking for a “pause” on unscheduled deliveries as they get organized with...
Top 10 5. NC lawmakers will vote on Helene relief. Here’s how they’ve spent on aid for past disasters Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline In 2018, weeks after Hurricane Florence devastated coastal North Carolina, state lawmakers returned to Raleigh to approve...
Top 10 6. Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from. Jake Bittle/Grist Even as the full scale of devastation in the mountainous regions of North Carolina and Tennessee remains unknown,...
Top 10 7. Insurance company cancels policy days after Boone couple loses home to landslide Shaquira Speaks/Queen City News A Boone couple’s home is one of thousands destroyed by a landslide caused by Hurricane Helene....