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Middle and high school basketball players from North and South Carolina recently gathered at the historic Second Ward High School Gymnasium in uptown Charlotte for a showcase that blended competition and education.

UNC Charlotte has parted ways with men’s basketball coach Aaron Fearne, marking the first major decision by new Charlotte 49ers Athletic Director Kevin White.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is in western North Carolina this week for a visit focused on rural issues. On Monday, he held a roundtable in the town of Marion with more than a dozen local business, government and nonprofit leaders. Several participants said housing remains a crucial challenge in their communities.

Queens University’s men’s basketball team will face the Purdue Boilermakers on Friday in the Royals’ first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Flight operations at Charlotte Douglas International Airport were returning to normal Tuesday after heavy rain and high winds caused hundreds of delays and cancellations on Monday.

About 1,100 customers in Mecklenburg County remained without power Tuesday morning after severe storms swept through the area Monday. Most of the outages were in Matthews, along South Boulevard and around Robinson Church Road in northeast Charlotte.

An EF-0 tornado hits Charlotte; limited damage reported. Owners of a data center near Sanford consider fracking to fuel the facility. Citigroup opens a new office in Ballantyne; plans to hire 500 new workers. A look at how NIL money is now impacting high school sports in N.C.

A data center developer is considering a site near Sanford in Lee County, and might even pursue fracking to fuel the facility — a first for North Carolina. Monday night, a crowd of concerned citizens wearing anti-fracking buttons packed Sanford’s McSwain Center to push for a data center moratorium.

A new report released Monday by Mecklenburg County highlights alarming disparities in infant mortality rates.

One race of the primary election in Mecklenburg County flew under the radar.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education is moving to formally dissolve its Office of Compliance and Ethics, which was created in 2019 after the ousting of two superintendents in five years and scrutiny over a contract under former Superintendent Clayton Wilcox.