Top 10 4. Dennis Smith Sr. continues fight to overturn Godwin town board election results Paul Woolverton/CityView The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted unanimously to revive Smith’s protest of the municipal election after...
Top 10 5. New Medicaid plan aims to untangle care for NC foster children Jaymie Baxley/NC Health News After years of pleading from the child welfare community, the N.C. Department of Health and Human...
Top 10 6. Swain County jail’s inspection failures highlight statewide issues Lily Levin/Smoky Mountain News Between 2017 and 2025, Swain County Law Enforcement Center failed 13 of 16 biannual inspections, according...
Top 10 7. Columbus Regional and Novant Health make their case for new hospital plans Morgan Casey/Border Belt Independent A year and a half ago, Leslie Malpass had one of the worst days of her...
Top 10 8. With Medicaid pilot funding stalled, local organization gets $1.5M to build a new program Charlie Fossen/Port City Daily A state-run program allowing Medicaid to pay for non-medical needs like food and housing has been...
Top 10 9. School board adjusts SRO separation allowance Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot The Moore County Board of Education recently passed a new policy that it hopes will...
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...