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Kyle Larson ended six years of struggles at Charlotte Motor Speedway, winning the Coca-Cola 600 in dominating fashion to give team owner Rick Hendrick a record-setting victory.

Charlotte Motor Speedway delivered perhaps the most normal weekend since NASCAR returned from its COVID-19 shutdown. There was practice, qualifying, some 50,000 fans in the stands and a Hendrick Motorsports driver taking the checkered flag.

Jeff Gordon will leave the Fox Sports booth to take a daily role at Hendrick Motorsports as vice chairman and the second-ranking team official to majority owner Rick Hendrick.

A Mecklenburg County jailer has been arrested and charged with multiple sex crimes and fired from his job. Charlotte police say the survivor was in custody at the jail when the alleged assaults took place.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' decision to join the faculty at Howard University rather than UNC Chapel Hill follows an extended and public fight over whether UNC would give her tenure. Joe Killian of the left-leaning NC Policy Watch, who has interviewed both Hannah-Jones and Walter Hussman Jr., the major donor who emailed concerns about Hannah Jones to university leaders, joins WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn.

The North Carolina State Wolfpack baseball team had a big win in the NCAA Division I College World Series this weekend. Charlotte Hornets rookie guard LaMelo Ball was named NBA Rookie of the Year and a big U.S. Supreme Court ruling today on education-related benefits for college athletes.

A shortage of ammunition in the U.S. is having an impact on law enforcement agencies, people seeking personal protection, recreational shooters and hunters.

A Charlotte Journalism Collaborative examination of nearly 700 eviction cases from October 2020 to March 2021 found evictions during the pandemic most often occurred in ZIP codes with higher rates of poverty, higher Black populations and less housing investment than the county, overall.

North Carolina health department data released Monday showed unvaccinated residents are far likelier to contract the virus, become hospitalized and die. State health officials warn of a decreased effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing infection from the more contagious delta variant.

Former Duke University basketball star Kyrie Irving has become one of the most prominent Americans to decline the COVID-19 vaccine. That comes with consequences. And as WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson says in his On My Mind commentary, the consequences aren’t just on the court.

The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further clouds the future of photo voter ID requirements in one of the numerous Republican-dominated states where lawmakers have sought them.

After Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty Friday, North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn offered the 18-year-old an internship and told his own supporters on Instagram to "be armed, be dangerous and be moral."

The first six weeks of President Trump’s second term have brought a whirlwind of action. How are everyday Republicans in Charlotte reacting? Members of the Mecklenburg County Young Republicans weigh in.

A UNC Charlotte architecture professor has designed windows that use suspended algae to filter light and carbon dioxide.

The Qualla Boundary is awash in celebration over the high school basketball team’s first state title since 1996.

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a memo that DOT funding would be based, in part, on communities with above-average marriage and birth rates.

What’s ironic about Jefferson Griffin and the GOP’s challenge is that photo ID has undermined much of their case. By requiring photo ID to vote, Republicans have made the notion of challenging tens of thousands of voters who cast ballots as potentially fraudulent even more untenable.

Was the recent United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, a success? Climate experts in North Carolina say there were successes and failures.

If the top stories of 2021 sound vaguely familiar, it’s because a lot of them were. COVID-19 continued to dominate every facet of life as the pandemic raged on, but there were a few more added storylines to it and other big stories.

North Carolina's highest court has declared there are two paths that an individual justice can take when weighing a request to be removed from hearing a case due to an alleged conflict of interest. The state Supreme Court order was filed last week but emailed to attorneys Thursday. The order should help resume a long-watched case over whether the 2018 constitutional amendment requiring photo voter identification is legitimate.