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U.S. Army veteran Kelly O'Gara of North Carolina has won art contests at the Salisbury VA Medical Center, and last year she won second place at the national level for a portrait of her daughter. But the Iraq War veteran says she wants to see someone else beat her locally — because it would mean they didn't give up.

North Carolina's redistricting process wasn't just about the U.S. House. State legislative district changes could make a big impact at the General Assembly in Raleigh. Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer helps us explain the state redistricting changes.

Along with events like the Ally Tipoff and Duke’s Mayo Classic, the Charlotte Sports Foundation says its events brought in around $160 million in 2022 and 2023. The foundation says it wants to bring something new and unique to the city with each event they plan.

Helene has changed the landscape in western North Carolina for years to come and raised interest among private landowners in an ancient forest management technique to prevent the spread of wildfires.

A Charlotte attorney who was a lifelong Republican got DOGE’d in February as part of the massive wave of federal employee firings. Reporter Michael Graff wrote about it for The Assembly. Graff spoke with WFAE’s Marshall Terry.

According to an economic impact study from Gov. Roy Cooper's office, 625 jobs were created for North Carolinians because of the race.

Last month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools unveiled a new plan to help link teachers to affordable housing. Administrators hope it will help retain and recruit new teachers amid statewide shortages.

B Hylton, a 17-year-old who was born and raised in Charlotte, was recently called up to England’s national soccer team for women. She’s part of a promising crop of young talent popping up on Charlotte’s only professional women’s sports team — Carolina Ascent.

In a vote along party lines this week, Republicans in the North Carolina House completed an override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that moves power away from newly-elected Democrats, among them the incoming governor and attorney general.

Charlotte’s transit system abandons plan for underground bus station, now says street-level is ‘clearly the preference’

Charlotte’s new focus on regionalism brings more people to the table, but can they all agree on a vision? One Union County town awaits more details.

Community theaters in Charlotte had a rough year in 2021. Theatre Charlotte was damaged by a fire, Three Bone Theatre lost its home in uptown's Spirit Square, and the pandemic continued to disrupt plans and challenge local theater producers.

In politically divided North Carolina, hostilities between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and majority-Republican lawmakers have eased somewhat as 2021 nears its end. But their relationship is still far from harmonious.

It was another busy news week, and somehow we're wondering: Is this the crest of the wave or are we still in the calm before storm?

Award-winning vocalist and recording artist Nicolas Beard is known for his silky baritone and jazz-inflected R&B.

Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday, but indicated that if President Trump ended her sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.

NPR's Adrian Florido had been buying fruit from the same fruit-cart vendor in his Los Angeles neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Florido was there when federal immigration agents whisked him away.

For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around.

Is it TB or not TB? A new study estimates the number of people told they have tuberculosis when they have a different respiratory ailment — and those who do have TB but aren't accurately diagnosed.

TikTok is challenging a new law that would ban the app if it doesn't find a buyer, citing free speech supression. The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears they could be used in Rafah.