Top 10 1. Hurricane Helene relief appropriation $700M, pushes Legislature total to $2.8B Alan Wooten/The Center Square In some hamlets of the mountains, the impact of Hurricane Helene isn’t easily seen anymore. Elsewhere,...
Top 10 2. ‘Playing politics with public safety’: Budget makes Wake County prosecutors NC’s most understaffed Will Doran/WRAL News Wake County will have the most understaffed prosecutor’s office in the state if North Carolina’s new budget...
Top 10 3. Duke appoints 5 new trustees, including McDonald’s CEO Riya Manchanda/The Duke Chronicle Five new members have joined the Duke Board of Trustees, University officials announced Wednesday. Effective July...
Top 10 4. 2026 budget includes funds for Propel NC, enrollment growth, and workforce programs for community colleges Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC More than a year after the original due date, lawmakers have passed a state budget. The...
Top 10 5. Landis police chief tenders resignation Chandler Inions/The Salisbury Post Landis’ top law man, Police Chief Matthew Geelen, is stepping away from his role with the...
Top 10 6. State budget would govern how school districts handle challenges to library books Liz Schlemmer/WUNC News A provision in the proposed state budget would require all public school districts to create committees to...
Top 10 7. Army Corps issues final report on Wilmington Harbor deepening Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday the publication of its final reports on the proposed deepening...
Top 10 8. Meetings about Gaston County Schools funding raise questions about transparency James Farrell/WFAE Radio In May, the Gaston County Commissioners approved the Gaston County Schools budget. It kept funding flat from...
Top 10 9. Column: Hope Mills hikes taxes, won’t renew contract for town manager Bill Kirby Jr./CityView Hope Mills soon will be looking for a new town manager to replace Chancer McLaughlin. “The consensus...
Top 10 10. Albemarle Region’s tallest hotel offered luxurious amenities Eric Medlin/Coastal Review Online The term “skyscraper” often evokes a Northern metropolis full of towering masses of steel, thousands of...
Top 10 1. Mission Hospital to relax degree requirements for nurses Ted Clifford/Asheville Watchdog Beginning Tuesday, Mission Hospital will no longer require nurses to have a four-year Bachelor of Science Nursing...
Top 10 2. Survey of school staff finds that school staff say school-based telehealth reduces behavioral issues Jennifer Fernandez/Education NC & NC Health News At North Carolina schools that provide behavioral health care remotely, teachers and school...
Top 10 3. Kroger is buying this family-owned supermarket for $1.65 billion, promising to bring customers ‘affordable prices’ Sean Bell/Yahoo Finance The American grocery market looks set for a major development of consolidation as the oldest grocery chain...
Top 10 4. Apex bookstore facing 64% rent hike to close, other shops face uncertain future Megan Cloherty/WRAL News A perfect storm of challenges in downtown Apex has business owners considering closing. Their landlords are raising...
Top 10 5. Fayetteville, Cumberland County leaders granted extension to reach agreement on joint 911 call center Justin Moore/WNCN State lawmakers have granted the City of Fayetteville and Cumberland County nine more days to reach an agreement...
