Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say a man died early Friday after being detained during a traffic stop in east Charlotte.

Gov. Stein is commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene on Friday morning with a press conference along I-40 at the Pigeon River Gorge with NCDOT officials. His office says 96% of water systems are back online, nearly all state-maintained roads are open, and all 13 affected state parks have at least partially reopened. Last week, the National Park Service reopened the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville to Mount Mitchell.

Mortgage rates in Charlotte fell to the lowest level in a year last month, reaching 6.5%, according to the Canopy Realtor Association. That drop fueled more contracts, with activity going up 12% in August as 4,000 homes went under contract. In Mecklenburg County, the median sales price rose about 6% to $466,000 compared to the same month last year. The average sales price jumped to $604,000. Canopy also reports that 96% of sellers in Mecklenburg received most of their asking price.

Police have charged two men after a Medic ambulance was struck by a stray bullet early Thursday while transporting a patient through uptown Charlotte.

Residents opposed to a major new data center in Matthews voiced their concerns at the town Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night.

A new study found that some areas in Charlotte have surfaces that are much hotter than others. The study mapped out Charlotte’s 294,000 roofs, 5,600 lane-miles of city-owned road, and 1,200 acres of parking lots.

The Union County NAACP is calling for the removal of Monroe Mayor Robert Burns after social media posts in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder. At Tuesday night’s Monroe City Council meeting, the group’s president, Archie Hansley, said Burns used his official platform to target private citizens and incite violence by tagging far right social media accounts like Libs of Tik Tok.

A monkey was hit by a car on Tuesday, a week after it escaped from a zoo in Iredell County, according to animal services.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is conducting an internal investigation after one of its officers was charged with DWI over the weekend. CMPD says North Division Officer Matt Wilson was involved in a crash in Montgomery County on Sunday and the State Highway Patrol found probable cause to charge him with DWI.Wilson is currently on unpaid administrative leave during the investigation.

UNC Charlotte jumped up in the annual U.S. News national college rankings.