The selection of Asheville “reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to the revitalization and resilience of western North Carolina,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

Mecklenburg County Community Support Services has released the 2025 State of Housing Instability and Homelessness Report.The annual number of people who stayed in emergency shelters, safe havens, or transitional housing increased 6% from fiscal year 2024. As of June 2025, there were 2,404 people experiencing homelessness in Mecklenburg County, down 14% from last year. But the number of people experiencing homelessness for the first time in 2024 increased 11%.The report says more than 77% of the low-cost housing stock available in 2015 was lost by 2024. Several factors were involved, including redevelopment, a focus on construction of high-end housing, rising construction costs, and rental price increases.

A once-partly abandoned industrial site that's become one of Charlotte's hottest developments has a new part-owner. An Atlanta-based group has purchased a stake in Camp North End just north of uptown, now home to offices, restaurants and apartments. For more on what the change means, Ashley Fahey of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced a judgment Monday against David Jewel Satterfield and his Charlotte-based companies, A1 Towing Solutions and Automobile Recovery and Parking Enforcement, for racially targeting drivers, illegally booting and towing their vehicles, and price gouging.

The council reviewed the city's growth and infrastructure needs in a recent meeting.

Charlotte is ending a six-month pilot program that allowed street vendors to sell in NoDa, citing ongoing complaints and enforcement challenges. Some vendors and neighborhood leaders say the move could undercut the district’s creative character and eliminate an important source of income for local artists and entrepreneurs.

Zaas is a pulmonary and critical care physician and a professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest.

For many in the former papermill town, the moratorium is an opportunity to think through a community-centered vision for the future.

Here’s some news you may find surprising: the Charlotte region added more jobs than any other metro area in the country except New York City in 2025. That’s according to newly-released Labor Department statistics. For more, Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.

The town of Lake Lure has begun to fill up the lake again after Hurricane Helene left it damaged. Town officials and local business owners are hoping the May reopening date will bring back tourism.