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The U.N. agency named the uniquely Jamaican musical genre one of the world's cultural treasures on Thursday.

The Kalamazoo, Mich. band has been playing bluegrass on its own terms for 18 years. And its upcoming album, All For Money, is no exception.

N.K. Jemisin's new story collection is a story in itself, a chronicle of her career that has the seeds of her award-winning novels, but also lovely and thought-provoking stand-alone work.

Recorded during the 2018 International Trombone Festival, this brass choir elevates the cover game.

Authorities say a 6-year-old boy who disappeared after running off in a North Carolina park died of accidental drowning.The Gastonia Police Department…

The San-Ysidro border crossing is the busiest in the Western Hemisphere. The temporary shutdown on Sunday hurt businesses on both sides of the border.

The debt John McPhail's tuneful horror comedy owes to Shaun of the Dead proves too deep to clamber out of, but the songs are fun and Ella Hunt's feisty lead performance is charming.

In this haunting, lyrical Italian film, the true story of a horrific mob-related kidnapping is couched within "a love story [that unfolds] in a fairy tale more Grimm than Disney."

Updated: 7:15 p.m.Federal judicial nominee Thomas Farr likely won’t be confirmed after all. South Carolina U.S. Senator Tim Scott, who would have been the…

Argentina hoped the G-20 summit would be a chance to showcase its stability and prosperity. But high expectations for its technocrat president have succumbed to runaway inflation and economic crisis.

Students bringing guns to school has Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials implementing and planning tougher security measures.They include installing…

Critic Chris Klimek offers a remembrance of the late illusionist, author and actor Ricky Jay, for whom he worked as a personal assistant over a decade ago.

Comedian Amber Ruffin discusses her work on Late Night with Seth Meyers, imbibing on Drunk History, and writing a musical about bigfoot. Then, she plays a game about cryptids.

The city of Charlotte turns 250 years old today. If our city was a person, you might say, yeah, they’ve had a lot of work done. In fact, there’s not much…

Updated 3:40 p.m.One of the largest industrial technology companies in the U.S. is moving its global headquarters to Charlotte. Honeywell International…

The city of Charlotte has adopted a policy known as “Vision Zero,” whose goal is to have no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. But as the…

In the still un-certified 9th Congressional District race, Bladen and Robeson counties had the two highest rate of unreturned absentee mail-in…

The North Carolina Board of Elections voted 7-2 Friday afternoon to hold a public hearing in December on allegations of fraud in Bladen County, casting…

MRI scans of the brains of young football players suggest that repeated blows to the head can change the shape of nerve fibers in the corpus callosum, which connects the two halves of the brain.

Here we are at the culinary crossroads between Thanksgiving and the Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa-New Year’s holidays. As if we didn’t have enough to worry…