Mecklenburg County commissioners on Wednesday voiced broad support for County Manager Mike Bryant’s proposed $2.6 billion budget.The plan includes a 1.8% spending increase and fully funds Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ nearly $700 million local funding request. It does not raise property taxes.

In a stunning decision, a supermajority of the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization’s board voted Wednesday night to rescind its support for the public-private partnership to build toll lanes on Interstate 77.

The state legislature is taking final votes Wednesday to put several constitutional amendments restricting tax rates on November's ballot. They passed the House thanks to support from two Charlotte legislators who recently left the Democratic Party.

A bill is moving through the North Carolina General Assembly named after Dominique Moody. The 6-year-old died last year after being beaten and starved. Investigations found that the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services had received reports of abuse but failed to protect the child. We look at that failure, the role local reporting played in exposing it and what this bill would do to address it.

Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney said he may step down in the coming months following a 2024 incident in which he was recorded late at night in town hall without pants with a female companion.On Monday, Carney said he plans to consider his future after the town’s budget is passed.

North Carolina is projected to have a shortage of 750,000 housing units by 2029. With Executive Order 36, Stein aimed to direct cabinet agencies to work together to boost housing supply.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson is suing the federal Department of Education over new restrictions on student loans. Jackson says the changes could make it harder to recruit nurses and other healthcare workers.

Gov. Josh Stein has signed an executive order outlining priorities for strengthening housing access and affordability.

The state constitution currently requires the tax rate to remain below 7% — a number set through an amendment vote in the 2018 election. The proposed amendment would reduce that cap to 3.5%. Voters in the November election would decide whether to approve the amendment.

A battle over congressional redistricting in South Carolina is intensifying as lawmakers continue debating a proposed map while election officials warn the state is running out of time to make changes.