COVID-19 vaccines are available for our youngest children. NASCAR Hall of Famer and founder of Charlotte Motor Speedway Bruton Smith has died at age 95. North Carolina sees its first case of monkeypox. And, few answers emerge — even after two years — about a shooting on Beatties Ford Road.

A decade after the Obama administration created the DACA program giving protections to undocumented children, that program is in limbo. We look at what the future may hold and hear from a DACA beneficiary.

On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Dan Chapman, whose new book “A Road Running Southward” retraces the steps of environmentalist John Muir, who walked the South from Kentucky to Florida in 1867. Along the way, Chapman shows what development and climate change have done to the Southern landscape.

We take a look at the Jan. 6 hearings and North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. Followed by a talk about our lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, who’s been in the news for a series of controversial comments.

As a third pandemic school year draws to a close, new research offers the clearest accounting yet of the pandemic's academic toll.

Federal health agencies have approved the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Two vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna, have been granted emergency use authorization for children ages 6 months to 5 years and shipments of shots are arriving in North Carolina.

NC Gov. Roy Cooper has COVID-19.

CDC advisers are recommending the use of two separate COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, paving the way for vaccine rollout as early as next week.