Top 10 1. Public school enrollment drops The High Point Enterprise Enrollment fell in nearly every North Carolina school district this year — including in the Guilford...
Top 10 2. AdventHealth: High Court won’t hear key appeal on new Buncombe hospital Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press The North Carolina Supreme Court has delivered a key ruling against HCA in the ongoing...
Top 10 3. Hemp drinks are buoying craft breweries. With a ban looming, leaders are bracing for the worst April Laissle/WFDD Radio Over the past few years, craft breweries across North Carolina have increasingly turned to hemp-infused drinks to...
Top 10 4. Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley received primary-residence tax breaks on Atlanta home while serving on Asheville City Council John Boyle, Sally Kestin & Dan DeWitt/Asheville Watchdog Asheville Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley has received primary-residence tax benefits on a...
Top 10 5. ICE arrests in NC doubled in 2025. Fewer convicted criminals, more without criminal record or convictions Aaron Sánchez-Guerra & Jason DeBruyn/WUNC Radio Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, had already nearly doubled 2024’s total of immigration...
Top 10 6. Endowment remains elusive on funding relationship with government, accountability metrics Brenna Flanagan/Port City Daily The New Hanover Community Endowment hosted a listening session with the public Wednesday night. Questions on...
Top 10 7. Secure Rural Schools Program passes Congress with bipartisan support Caroline Parker/Education NC After two years in limbo, the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (SRS) was reauthorized for...
Top 10 8. New report finds NC Department of Environmental Quality ‘ill-positioned’ to face climate and environmental problems Zachary Turner/WFAE Radio A report from the watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project found that the North Carolina agency responsible for...
Top 10 9. Harnett County neighbors seek relief from disruptive noise Judith Retana/CBS 17 News Noisy neighbors are always a nuisance, and many municipalities like Harnett County have ordinances in place...
Top 10 10. Moore County airport considers new direction for hangar expansions Elena Marsh/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Officials with the Moore County Airport may be exploring a new direction for hangar ownership...
Top 10 1. H5N1’s tipping point: Scientists identify when containment fails Sahana Ghosh/Nature Scientists have identified the precise point at which stopping an H5N1 pandemic becomes impossible. When the bird flu...
Top 10 2. NASCAR settles federal antitrust case, gives all its teams the permanent charters they wanted Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse...
Top 10 3. Opponents say river water transfer puts Cape Fear in peril Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online A Piedmont town’s request to permanently pull millions of gallons of water a day from the...
Top 10 4. Proposed Costco location in Enka opposed by Economic Development Coalition John Boyle/Asheville Watchdog Citing wage concerns, diminished property taxes and the potential loss of the city’s last remaining industrial development...
Top 10 5. Location, power supply, facility landed Vulcan Elements David Beasley/The Center Square With ready electric power supply next to a new, huge factory building, the Johnston County community...