Top 10 4. Developer sues New Hanover County over special use permit denial Emma Dill/WilmingtonBiz Following the denial of two special use permit applications, an affiliate of Greensboro-based developer The Carroll Companies is...
Top 10 5. As one Haywood volunteer fire department celebrates a big win, others struggle Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News As the sun set behind the Saunook fire station in west Haywood County, members of the...
Top 10 6. PTI passenger traffic trends up nicely with 7 percent jump Scott D. Yost/Rhino Times Piedmont Triad International Airport saw a solid rise in passenger traffic last month, according to the...
Top 10 7. Child care advocates point to teacher wage supplements as low-cost, urgent fix Liz Bell/Education NC Henrietta Zalkind, executive director of the Down East Partnership for Children, speaks on the importance of local...
Top 10 8. National developer sets its sights on housing development in Clyde Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A housing development might be coming to Clyde in the near future, creating an opportunity for...
Top 10 9. Federal grant aims to help give Helene-impacted farmers mental health support Kani’ya Davis/WUNC Radio The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute received a more than $292,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to support...
Top 10 10. Athlete to admin: Former UNC basketball player Marcus Ginyard takes on strategic leadership role Sarayu Thondapu/The Daily Tar Heel Last month, former UNC men’s basketball captain Marcus Ginyard ’10 was appointed director of special...
Top 10 1. DSS directors across NC concerned by state interventions, letter reveals Lucas Thomae/Carolina Public Press Following the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ unprecedented takeovers of two county departments of...
Top 10 2. Commissioners, sheriff mull school security options Matt Lamb/The (Southern Pines) Pilot Following a discussion Thursday at a Board of Commissioners workshop on school safety and the...
Top 10 3. Next steps on UNCA woods’ fate will take longer than planned, with original timeline scrapped, school leaders say Jack Evans/Asheville Watchdog In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to...
Top 10 4. Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News & WFAE Radio On Friday, North Carolina will be the only state in the country to...
Top 10 5. NCGOP wants investigation of alleged Wilmington election fraud, local Democratic party calls it a “political stunt” Benjamin Schachtman/WHQR Today, the North Carolina GOP said it had learned of an alleged cash-for-votes scheme in Wilmington. The county...
Top 10 6. Meet the UNC street drug scientist awarded a ‘genius’ grant for his lifesaving work Taylor Knopf/NC Health News At a time when the nation’s drug supply has become increasingly unpredictable, Nabarun Dasgupta uses what...
Top 10 7. Drivers escape injury in overnight Parkway rockslide Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A rockslide on the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville last Wednesday night, Oct. 29, left...
Top 10 8. NASCAR driver Kyle Busch sues insurance company for $8.5 million, alleging deceptive practices John Marshall/The Associated Press Kyle Busch bought what he thought was a safe life insurance plan that would provide self-funding...