Top 10 9. Commission OKs advancing wastewater rules to public review Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online Proposed rules that would require hundreds of industrial manufacturers and public sewer plants across the state...
Top 10 10. New commercial development proposed on South Main in Waynesville Paul Nielsen/The Waynesville Mountaineer A commercial development with up to four retail spaces has been proposed for a vacant 1.3...
Top 10 1. NC hospitals, sheriffs at odds over new mental evaluation procedure for criminal suspects Paul Specht/WRAL News North Carolina leaders last year approved new rules for handling criminal suspects who may need psychiatric care...
Top 10 2. NC psychiatric hospitals plagued by staffing shortages, funding limbo Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press If a family member is committed to a North Carolina state psychiatric hospital in 2026,...
Top 10 3. New year, new definition: Feds set to limit water protections Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The two agencies that enforce the Clean Water Act have proposed changes to the waterbodies considered...
Top 10 4. New federal dietary guidelines, which shape school meals, recommend first limits on highly processed food Analisa Sorrells Archer/Education NC On Wednesday, new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were released by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture...
Top 10 5. In Helene’s wake, NC’s landslide hazard mapping program tries to become more useful for emergencies Adam Wagner/NC Newsroom & WUNC Radio North Carolina is working to map areas that are particularly susceptible to landslides in...
Top 10 6. ‘Traumatized’: U.S. citizens say ICE officers detained, assaulted them in Salisbury, NC Aaron Sánchez-Guerra/WUNC Radio Two U.S. citizen brothers say Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers racially profiled and assaulted them in Salisbury,...
Top 10 7. ‘Safety-wise, it’s a big issue’: Residents concerned with approved 355-home Hampstead development Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A proposed 355-home single-family subdivision in Hampstead won approval from the Pender County Planning Board in...
Top 10 8. Hillsborough reinstalls pump station infrastructure after flood repairs, but relocation challenge remains Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro The Town of Hillsborough resolved one of the impacts of July’s Tropical Depression Chantal still affecting its...
Top 10 9. South Carolina measles outbreak grows by nearly 100, spreads to North Carolina and Ohio The Associated Press South Carolina’s measles outbreak exploded into one of the worst in the U.S., with state health officials...
Top 10 10. Superintendent search proceeds, but not without debate Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot In what seemed like an all-but-done deal — the Board of Education contracting with BWP...
Top 10 1. New federal dietary guidelines, which shape school meals, recommend first limits on highly processed food Analisa Sorrells Archer/Education NC On Wednesday, new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were released by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture...
Top 10 2. Built by peers, backed by the state: Inside North Carolina’s expanding peer support network Taylor Knopf/NC Health News Thanos first stepped into the peer cafe across from the bus station in downtown Raleigh looking...
Top 10 3. Raleigh leaders summoned to legislature over video alleging DEI violations Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio City of Raleigh leaders were called before a state House committee Wednesday to discuss a video that...