The shift comes as the Trump administration looks to move away from a housing-first model for tackling homelessness.

The Charlotte City Council swore in three new members Monday: Kimberly Owens, JD Mazuera Arias and Joi Mayo.

Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps this week won a special U.S. House election for a conservative district that includes part of Nashville.

A western North Carolina hospital was supposed to be built and running by 2025, but the state's certificate of need law has been used to delay the project for years.

The initiatives are part of a larger, federally-funded effort to rebuild housing after Hurricane Helene in fall 2024.

When lawmakers passed a spending bill ending the federal government shutdown, many people celebrated — but not hemp farmers. That’s because language contained in the spending bill threatens to ban nearly all products derived from the hemp they grow. Daniel Larlham Jr. spoke with North Carolina hemp farmers for the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter. He joined WFAE's Marshall Terry.

ARPA program money allocated to NC agencies set to return to the feds if the COVID funds aren’t spent before the end of 2026.

Contest to replace retiring US Sen. Thom Tillis in NC is predicted to draw more money than any Senate race in history.

News of the funding’s release comes one day after U.S. Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis (R) released their holds on some of President Trump’s Homeland Security nominees.

An unusually high number of Republican state lawmakers are facing challengers in the March primary. Candidate filing for the 2026 election got under way on Monday and runs through Dec. 19.