Two Republicans face each other in a primary runoff later this month for the congressional seat in North Carolina’s 13th District, which covers part of the Raleigh area. One of the candidates, Kelly Daughtry, in a TV ad, has claimed that her opponent Brad Knott was a "lawyer for Joe Biden." WRAL's Paul Specht joined us for this week's Fact Check to discuss.

UNC-Chapel Hill officials erected a 6-foot fence around the flag pole at Polk Place after protesters pulled down the American flag that normally flies there and ran up a Palestine flag.

Scenes of grief played out in front of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and in an east Charlotte neighborhood Tuesday, one day after four officers were killed and four others injured by a man wanted on gun charges.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board approved a slightly slimmed-down budget request Tuesday, but it still may be more than the county can provide without a tax hike.

Charlotte-based filmmaker Resita Cox's “Freedom Hill” looks at the intersection of race, history and climate change in America’s oldest Black town.

A state Senate committee has approved legislation to force sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on Tuesday gave updates on the Monday afternoon shootings that left four law enforcement officers dead and four more injured.

Toussaint Romain, who rose to prominence during Charlotte's 2016 Keith Scott protests, has been fired from the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy after two years as CEO.

We preview some of the items the legislature will be grappling with in their short session. That includes education funding, immigration, and what to do with a budget surplus.

Police arrested more than two dozen protesters who refused to leave an encampment. The group call themselves the UNC-Chapel Hill Gaza Solidarity Encampment and are calling for an end to the war in Gaza.

WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn talks to sportswriter Mike Kaye about how the Carolina Panthers and players from the Carolinas fared in the 2024 NFL draft.

“Democrats can point to shiny objects. Those are not going to be things that win elections. It will be one-on-one conversations with friends, neighbors, people we go to church with.” said Jason Simmons, chair of the N.C. GOP.