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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has rejected a bill to limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts inside the classroom. Republicans do not appear to have the necessary votes to override the Democratic governor's veto on Friday.

A strategic plan for building reading skills, closing racial gaps and recovering from COVID-19 pandemic setbacks is on Tuesday's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board agenda. It's part of a bigger strategy for more effective governing.

President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, including Dena King in the Western District of North Carolina and Sandra Hairston in the Middle District. Both women would become the first Black women to hold those positions.

A state budget was supposed to be in place July 1, but slow work at the Legislative Building combined with still-significant differences between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper have extended talks from the summer into the fall.

Remember Centene? The health care company announced a year ago it was building its East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, but we haven't heard many details lately. The latest BizWorthy has an update, along with what area companies are planning for COVID-friendly office holiday parties.

Next year’s opportunity is favorable in part because Republican incumbent Thom Tillis is mistrusted by a significant part of the Republican base — and likely to face what could be a bruising primary.

Duke University plans to shed some of its faculty and staff in anticipation of actions by the Trump administration. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his “On My Mind" commentary, says a lot of the cuts are self-inflicted.

An updated retelling of Euripides' Greek tragedy "Medea" centers around a migrant family living in Los Angeles. The play debuts in Charlotte this month with a six-person, bilingual cast with immigrant roots.

According to the Gaston County website, “Gaston County is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners (BOC) representing six townships. Commissioners are elected on a countywide or "at-large" partisan basis to four-year staggered terms but must reside in their respective Township.” As for duties and responsibilities, “The Board has established its Priorities as job creation and economic development, education, healthy communities, public safety, and quality of life, and strives to incorporate these priorities as guidelines for future policy decisions. The major duties of the Board of Commissioners include assessing and assigning priorities to the needs of the County, adopting an annual balanced budget, establishing the annual property tax rate, maintaining a responsible fiscal policy, and enacting local ordinances. Commissioners are also responsible for appointing volunteers to serve on various advisory boards and commissions.”

Rajah Caruth, a student at Winston-Salem State University, is in his second full season in competing in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series. He sees the North Wilkesboro Speedway as an important venue for the sport.

The rising influence of Latinos on elections was put on full display when roughly 45% of that group of voters ticked Donald Trump on their ballots this year.

The speech at the Detroit Economic Club comes after major foreign policy moves have overshadowed domestic policy.

WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson is a master interviewer. And in his SouthBound podcast, he talks to some of the most interesting people in the South — authors, musicians, chefs, you name it. Here are some of Tomlinson’s favorite interviews of 2021.

We’ve made it to 2022, but the wreckage of 2021 is still sharp in our memories. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, tries to face the new year with a new attitude.

Ella Scarborough has rarely participated in meetings since being elected to her most recent term in 2020. It's unclear if commissioners will be able to name a temporary replacement.

Winston-Salem city officials confirmed that firefighters responded in late December to what an incident report called a smoldering pile of “fertilizer material” at a plant where, in early February, an explosion and uncontrolled flames would force thousands to flee their homes.

About 1,000 employees of Union County Public Schools are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Friday and Saturday, an option that's not yet available to most frontline workers in the state.

South Carolina is now letting people 65 and older receive the coronavirus vaccine, the state health department announced Wednesday.

North Carolina lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated with the state's slow rollout of Pfizer and Moderna's coronavirus vaccines.

North Carolina ranks 11th among all states in the country for the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses, according to the CDC. In 2020, women accounted for 17% of those new diagnoses — and Black and Latina women had the highest rates.