A group of 24 Southeastern mayors recently asked Congress to act on clean energy laws. Initiatives from local and federal levels are being proposed to tackle environmental concerns.

On the Local News Roundup: the first maps are presented in Charlotte’s redistricting process; we get an update on COVID-19 mandates and violations; and if the streetcar is running but no one is riding it, is it really running?

Health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic are burned out. With patient counts near record levels, what has been and what is likely to be the impact? Health care workers from Charlotte area hospitals share their thoughts.

In the latest installment of WFAE’s health care series The Price We Pay, we take a look at medication costs. Americans spend twice as much on medical care as people in other wealthy countries, and one of the reasons is the high prices of our prescription drugs. We pay, on average, 2 1/2 times for the same medicines. Why? Mike Collins and a panel of experts discuss.

On the night of Sept 7, a sleeping 3-year-old boy was shot and killed after 150 rounds of bullets were shot into his home, police said. Two days earlier, a 16-year-old also lost his life to gun violence; a 14-year-old was arrested for that homicide. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police suspect these cases are connected and have ties to area high schools. Local activists and violence experts join us to discuss how teens are getting guns, and what can be done to prevent the deadly violence.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted this week to maintain a mask mandate in schools, while Lincoln County's school board voted to make masks optional. Union County Public Schools stopped contact tracing and quarantines, but state health officials told the school board there to follow COVID-19 requirements or face possible legal action. Mecklenburg County employees are suspended for noncompliance of COVID testing rules and fear is high at three area schools connected to recent shootings.

Why we don’t seem to share any common ground when it comes to agreeing on the causes of the Civil War or the meaning or fate of Confederate monuments.

The Center for Public Integrity recently found that Black students and students with disabilities are more likely to be referred to law enforcement.

We take another look at our white-hot real estate market and the many factors that continue to drive up demand, reducing the city’s housing inventory to a historic low.

Can religion and science coexist? Former Gov. James Martin thinks so. His book "Revelation Through Science," which looks at the relationship between religion and science, has recently been revised. He talks about how faith and science can support one another and how religion and politics have affected science research.