A ceremony in downtown Rock Hill Thursday honored and retraced the steps of the Freedom Riders, activists who rode buses into the Jim Crow-era South in 1961 to push for desegregation.

Nearly 260 mail-in ballots in Mecklenburg County have been rejected because voters failed to seal an envelope inside another envelope. Voting rights groups worry some voters won’t be able to cast replacement ballots.

Across North Carolina, health systems are racing to build, expand and stake out new territory. What's driving the frenzy? And will patients be better off?

A Charlotte photographer’s portraits highlight the humanity of the local Latino community. The project, “Latinx Portraits,” opens in east Charlotte on Saturday.

Three Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members who voted last month to retain former Superintendent Crystal Hill will make up the majority of the committee tasked with finding her successor.

We’re getting another update on a story we’ve been following for a few months. The YMCA of Greater Charlotte announced over the summer that it plans to sell the Morrison Y in Ballantyne to a church for $42.5 million. Residents and Y members say they’re upset because the deal was handled behind closed doors and would mean losing a community space. For the latest, Tony Mecia of The Charlotte Ledger joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our BizWorthy segment.

Some high school students at UNC School of the Arts will now have guaranteed admission to UNC-Chapel Hill. While the partnership is still in the early stages of development, officials are also exploring a possible student-exchange program between the universities and international study-abroad opportunities.

While Jennifer Balkcom and Jamie Ager both come from Western NC farming families, the issues on which they are running are quite different.