Top 10 10. Elm City Board of Commissioners hires new CPA Christopher Long/The Wilson Times Members of the Elm City Board of Commissioners are looking to a new certified public accountant...
Top 10 1. Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved. Brady Dennis/The Washington Post A dusting of December snow had turned the mountains around her white, but Elizabeth Clark barely...
Top 10 2. Preventing the next flood in Clyde — with native plants Katie Myers/Blue Ridge Public Radio New funding from the state Department of Environmental Quality is set to help a small...
Top 10 3. In Brunswick, November home sales outpaced last year as county neared $3B in sales WilmingtonBiz Brunswick County’s residential real estate market in November racked up a higher number of home sales and higher prices...
Top 10 4. Judges reject arguments against NC Certificate of Need law Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press & NC Health News A challenge of the constitutionality of North Carolina’s Certificate of Need...
Top 10 5. Highway Patrol errors linked to deaths, injuries Virginia Bridges/The Raleigh News & Observer State Highway Patrol troopers are supposed to be the guardians of North Carolina’s highways,...
Top 10 6. Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise John Ruwitch/WUNC Radio Idaho-based Micron Technology is one of the world’s top makers of RAM chips and it’s benefited from...
Top 10 7. Lawsuits linger in Russ Avenue widening: Right of way condemnations tied up in court Aarik Long/The Waynesville Mountaineer As construction continues its march up Russ Avenue in Waynesville, more than a dozen commercial property...
Top 10 8. City, county misaligned on Wave Transit vision, delay vote on recommended performance shifts Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily Earlier this month, what was intended to be a workshop on route changes in the Wave...
Top 10 9. Officials wary of voracious ‘super termite’ colonizing North Carolina Gareth McGrath/Wilmington StarNews Even in the early 1990s, it wasn’t unusual for new residents to flock to Brunswick County. But...
Top 10 10. 148-unit housing development approved for east of Boone Nick FoglemanWatauga Democrat A new housing project known as The Retreat at Boone is moving forward on a 40-acre site...
Top 10 1. Four years after promises, a plan for apartments at The Pearl Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger Four years after Atrium Health pledged to include affordable housing in its...
Top 10 2. US regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss Jonel Aleccia/The Associated Press U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss...
Top 10 3. What can philanthropy learn from nonprofits’ leadership on Hurricane Helene recovery? Susan Mims/Education NC A little more than a year ago, Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina. Thirty-one inches of rain,...
Top 10 4. NC county settles lawsuit over stifling public comment Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners has settled a lawsuit with James Campbell after it handed...