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Charlotte City Council members are scheduled to vote Monday evening on new guidelines designed to help preserve existing affordable housing units and keep…

While the job market has improved, the labor force participation rate hasn't recovered to levels seen before the Great Recession. NPR wants to hear from those who left the workforce and didn't return.

The class of 2009 graduated into an economy in decline and one of the worst job markets in generations. Now, with 10 years of hindsight, how do you think that affected your career path?

Today on the show: the economics of drought, and why the rational thing to do in California right now is use more water.

Slovakian 7-year-old Aron Hodek loves playing along with Tiny Desk concerts. In his latest performance, he tackles Thundercat's bass line in "What's the Use?"

More than 200,000 people are expected to attend the PGA Championship taking place at the Quail Hollow Club in south Charlotte next week. And that’s going…

CMPD is starting regular foot patrols in Plaza Midwood and NoDa. As many as five officers will walk the neighborhoods from 6 p.m.-4 a.m. on Thursday,…

CMPD and the City of Charlotte have put into place a curfew between and midnight and 6:00 a.m. It begins tonight and will last until the state of…

Charlotte's new city manager has released his proposed budget for the city. It calls for a 5.3 percent increase in city spending with no increase in…

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After her pet chicken ate a diamond earring, a woman in England decided to wait until the bird died to get her jewelry back. The earring could have been removed surgically but she was afraid the chicken wouldn't survive.

The television network's CEO, Richard Plepler, says the company is mulling over a move that could end-run the cable companies.

Astronomer Jill Tarter explains why searching for cosmic company is important to the human race.

An "auntie" left a very visible mark during a reception marking Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month the president joked Tuesday. "I do not want to be in trouble with Michelle," he added. "That's why I'm calling you out."

One of the longest-running outdoor dramas in the country, The Lost Colony, has won a Tony Honor for excellence in theatre. It's a first for North…

The increases add to signs that the economy continues to rebound from the 2007-09 recession and the slow recovery that followed.

Gaston County Commissioners voted 6-0 Thursday night in support of a resolution that calls for the General Assembly to make gun permit records secret.…

News reports about a parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School being "heckled" by gun owners aren't necessarily supported by video of the incident. Watch and judge for yourself.

Charlotte's new boss is getting his keys and passwords. Ron Carlee begins work Monday as city manager. He'll be sworn in Monday night at the city council…

Early in his career, video artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo noticed the way people breeze past works of art. He describes how his deliberate, slow-moving installations encourage people to stop and think.