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Charlotte FC has fired coach Miguel Angel Ramírez just 14 games into the regular season. Ramírez was hired by owner David Tepper to lead the Major League Soccer expansion club and was dismissed after going 5-8-1 in league games.

The Charlotte City Council voted Monday to spend $275 million improving the Spectrum Center and to build a new practice facility for the Charlotte Hornets. Council members also voted to spend $4.3 million on an engineering study for the third and final phase of the Gold Line streetcar.

The UNC System is making major investments in mental health prevention initiatives this year, with the help of $7.7 million in COVID-19 relief funding from the governor's office.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, notorious for making homophobic and misogynistic remarks, is expected to announce his bid for governor.

Roller derby competitors from around the country go head to head in a national championship.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced late Monday he will not seek the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in 2022. Robinson, who was elected five months ago to the state's No. 2 executive position in his first run for elected office, said in a video last week he was taking a “serious look” at a bid to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr.

The idea of vaccine passports is "a ridiculous concept," North Carolina's Republican Senate leader said via a spokesperson Thursday, in response Gov. Roy Cooper's comments that he is in discussions about creating a standardized record for people to prove they have been vaccinated for COVID-19.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.

North Carolina's state elections director has recommended postponing this fall's municipal elections to 2022 because of an expected delay in redistricting due to late census data. This week, town commissioners in Huntersville said a loud "no thank you."

Democrats won the tiniest of majorities in the U.S. Senate this week, but that one-vote majority will have a large impact on health care.

Superintendent Earnest Winston got a contract extension, a 3% raise and some job security from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday.

The White House announced Friday morning that it will include North Carolina in its federal pilot program of community vaccination centers. Starting March 10, a Greensboro site will receive about 3,000 vaccines per day.

The North Carolina House voted unanimously Wednesday to distribute another $1.7 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds, with most going toward virus testing and prevention, public university campuses, child-care assistance and transportation projects.

The state Senate has voted for a bill that would give bonuses to North Carolina’s unemployment benefit recipients who get a job soon — but Congress would have to sign off, too.

Mecklenburg County health director Gibbie Harris has announced that she will retire at the end of the year, after nearly four years in the role.

Duke Energy is helping the city of Austin, Texas, meet its carbon-reduction goals by selling power from a solar farm that began commercial operation this week. It's one of two projects now up and running that bring Duke's total renewable energy output above 10,000 megawatts.

Realtors Care Day will offer free home repair for residents in Mecklenburg, Iredell and Haywood counties in September. Applications to receive home repairs close tonight at midnight.

South Carolina Epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said Wednesday that schools could keep coronavirus spread low by ensuring mask wearing and social distancing, but the state's current virus trajectory suggests more cases are inevitable.

Mayors from 24 cities across the Southeast are calling on Congress to adopt national clean energy standards. In a letter to Congress and the White House this week, the mayors say their goal is to speed the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles, and to create jobs.

American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue will require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. That's happening as the Biden administration steps up pressure on airlines to adopt vaccine mandates.