Officials say voters whose records are still incomplete on Election Day may be asked to cast provisional ballots.

The Charlotte City Council hired the law firm Cranfill Sumner to investigate City Council member Victoria Watlington's comments made in an email.

The Defense Civilian Training Corps serves as a "talent factory" for the Department of Defense.

Charlotte City Council on Monday approved a plan to sort through more than 125 people who have applied to serve on a new transit authority board — if voters approve an increase to the sales tax in November.

Both campaigns have attacked the other for presumed failures in hurricane recovery. Whatley pointed to Cooper's work on Florence and Matthew, Cooper to Whatley's role in Helene recovery.

Charlotte attorney Morris McAdoo launched his campaign Tuesday in the NC House 106 Democratic primary against Representative Carla Cunningham.

The new map would shift voters' districts to give Republicans the advantage in 11 U.S. House seats.

Mecklenburg voters will decide on a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax to fund Charlotte’s transit plan. That tax would generate nearly $20 billion over 30 years for various transit projects. Proponents say the time is now to make this critical decision. Others urge a no vote because of who will be hurt by rising taxes. We look at both sides.

Early voting in the November election begins this week. Democrats have outnumbered Republicans in North Carolina for more than a century. But Republicans could soon outpace Democrats in registrations.

Early voting starts Thursday in Charlotte’s municipal elections. The only competitive race on the city council is in District 6, formerly represented by Tariq Bokhari, who stepped down. Now his wife, Krista, is running as a Republican against Democrat Kimberly Owens, who has been in Charlotte for more than 30 years, but this is her first time running for office. We sit down for a conversation about why she wants this job and more.