Top 10 1. A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025. Mired in bureaucracy, it’s still a dirt field. Andrew Jones/KFF Health News & WUNC Radio A western North Carolina hospital was supposed to be built and running by...
Top 10 2. Gut-amend-release. How NC’s translucent lawmaking tactics hurt democracy. Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press What you see is not always what you get in the North Carolina legislature. For decades,...
Top 10 3. Man who says religious group beat him wants prosecutor removed after long wait for retrial Jeffrey Collins/The Associated Press A man who says members of a secretive North Carolina religious group held him down and...
Top 10 4. Union County Public Schools and local NAACP at odds over partnership James Farrell/WFAE Radio The Union County chapter of the NAACP says Union County Public Schools has failed to make good...
Top 10 5. Earnings indicator launched on FAFSA. How many NC institutions are flagged for students? Mebane Rash/Education NC The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has launched a new earnings indicator for students as part of...
Top 10 6. Congress includes Lumbee recognition in defense spending bill Sarah Nagem/CityView A revised national defense spending agreement released this week would give full federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe...
Top 10 7. Qualicaps closing its Guilford County capsule plant, 91 to lose jobs next year Kevin Ellis/Business North Carolina Qualicaps will close its Guilford County facility late next year, resulting in the loss of...
Top 10 8. Durham County judge arrested on domestic violence, assault charges WRAL News The Durham Police Department arrested the chief judge for Durham County’s District Court on allegations of domestic violence...
Top 10 9. NC will launch Helene housing programs for multi-family, workforce units in 2026 Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline & Blue Ridge Public Radio North Carolina’s programs to repair and rebuild multi-family and workforce housing in...
Top 10 10. New motion accuses government of burying Camp Lejeune case in mountain of redundant, meritless motions Annette Weston/Public Radio East Seventy-two years after service members were first exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, and three...
Top 10 1. Cape Fear pollution tributaries: A tale of two NC rivers and cities Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press Burlington and Asheboro: these two North Carolina cities are less than 50 miles apart, but...
Top 10 2. Surprise! Your health care provider added a fee for that questionnaire you filled out Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger When Steve Hardman of Charlotte checked in to see a Novant Health...
Top 10 3. Honduran man is held without bond in North Carolina train stabbing that drew comments from Trump Erik Verduzco & Allen G. Breed/The Associated Press A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be...
Top 10 4. After Tennessee special election, a huge focus on North Carolina’s mountain district Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps this week won a special U.S. House election for a conservative district...
Top 10 5. Judge frustrated as NASCAR antitrust trial drags on with no end in sight Jenna Fryer/The Associated Press The slow pace of the federal antitrust suit lodged against NASCAR continued Monday at the start...