Top 10 3. Vi Lyles’ $250 million Racial Equity Initiative is winding down. How has it performed? Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Four years ago, Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles launched the Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative, an effort to raise...
Top 10 4. North Carolina joins other states in lawsuit to protect SNAP benefits, prevent ‘major hunger crisis’ Adam Wagner/WUNC Radio North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson is joining other Democratic officials across the country to sue the...
Top 10 5. Charlotte-area lobbyist and former lawmaker facing DUI charge in Charleston, SC Andrew Dys & Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan/The Charlotte Observer Jason Saine, a Raleigh lobbyist and former North Carolina lawmaker, was charged...
Top 10 6. Former factory site for sale Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise A former industrial site in southwest High Point is on the market after the owner...
Top 10 7. Five OBX homes collapse amid flood warning Tuesday; 15 houses swept into sea in 4 weeks David Lance & Rodney Overton/CBS 17 News Five houses collapsed at the Outer Banks on Tuesday, now totalling 13 houses...
Top 10 8. Gaston County Schools accepts $2 million property donation. Here’s how it’ll be used Chloe Collins/Gaston Gazette Gastonia-based philanthropists Don and Mary Doctor donated a $2 million property to Gaston County Schools, which will...
Top 10 9. What does it take to open a restaurant on Franklin Street? Kristin Kharrat/The Daily Tar Heel Local entrepreneurs bring their ideas to Franklin Street in hopes of becoming restauranteurs. Restaurants in...
Top 10 10. ‘Durham is Dope’ meets ‘Durham is HOPE’: Williams, Bell face off for city’s top job Leena Mirchandani/The (Duke) Chronicle Incumbent Mayor Leonardo Williams and mayoral candidate Anjanee Bell took the stage Tuesday evening for their...
Top 10 1. NC Board of Education hires outside firm to review Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ finances Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline The North Carolina State Board of Education on Monday approved a contract with the accounting firm Mauldin...
Top 10 2. Hudson asks interior secretary to step in, save High Falls Dam The (Southern Pines) Pilot U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson is calling upon U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the U.S. Fish...
Top 10 3. Another lawsuit challenges NC redistricting, this time using new legal theory of ‘retaliation’ Will Doran/WRAL News Opponents of North Carolina’s new congressional districts filed a new legal challenge Monday — one that leans...
Top 10 4. Conservative nonprofits question Trump authority on tariffs Alan Wooten/The Center Square Conservative, free market think tanks in North Carolina and Arizona in a brief filed at the...
Top 10 5. School bus trespassing arrests drop in Cumberland County Dasia Williams/CityView On a Wednesday afternoon in early October, a Cumberland County school bus stopped along Winesap Road to pick...
Top 10 6. Competing hospitals proposed 7 miles and days apart Johanna F. Still/Border Belt Independent Two health care systems in the Cape Fear region submitted applications days apart, seeking the...
Top 10 7. Democrats set January deadline for states to apply for early 2028 primary contests Meg Kinnard/The Associated Press Not even a year out from the last presidential election, the Democratic National Committee has begun...