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Governor Roy Cooper said he will veto a wide-ranging elections bill that both restores the governor’s control of the state elections board and restricts…

Is Trump's tax cut helping working people?

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department will be granted funds to purchase new equipment for its SWAT team, including night vision goggles and a…

Jim Rogers, the former chairman and chief executive of Duke Energy, has died, according to the company. Rogers was 71. In a statement, Duke Energy's…

Lopez talks with NPR's Sam Sanders about her decades of superstardom, her work imitating her life, and about being a boundary-breaking Latina woman in the entertainment industry.

After starting out in acting, Marshall directed well-loved and successful films in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bigand A League Of Their Own both have big hearts and real bite.

In January, big changes will start to take place in Hickory. Construction on a long-awaited "City Walk" will begin four years after citizens approved a…

M.K. England's new novel starts with a bang: A group of space-school rejects must save the universe. It never quite delivers on that premise, but the characters are so appealing, you'll want more.

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As 2018 draws to a close, we're taking a look back at some of the most powerful voices we heard in our community this year and how we've felt their impact…

A California court approved a $480 million settlement with Wells Fargo and its shareholders related to sham accounts the bank admitted to creating. A…

It's not fair that Christmas "becomes this embodiment where we as a people project all of this expectation and hope on this one day," says songwriter Kirby Brown. So he wrote a song about it.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Charlotte Wednesday to announce a $2.5 million grant from his foundation toward the city's efforts to…

Forty years ago this week, China opened up its economy to the rest of the world. This is the story of how one painting shows that China's current leadership is attempting to rewrite that history.

The contractor behind the I-77 toll lanes has pushed back the date for a portion of the project's opening.I-77 Mobility Partners said the northern section…

In June, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ban on asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence or domestic abuse. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked that ban, saying it had "no legal basis."

Live music awakens mind, body and soul — and that's what we need more than ever this year. Ann Powers' favorite concerts of 2018 helped create a shelter from everyday life's disorganized noise.

The much-delayed presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been delayed further. The government said this is because election materials haven't been distributed, violence is increasing and Ebola is a concern in the nation's east.

Another U.N. envoy ends his tenure, with no peace process in sight, though the war in Syria does seem to be grinding to a halt.

Atrium Health is expanding into Georgia effective Jan. 1. The combination with Macon-based Navicent Health was finalized Thursday after months of talks.…