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Charlotte is known for its abundance of trees. Where can you find the biggest, most storied ones in the city?

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it's become more common.

Houston missed a chance to nail down the franchise's first Series title. The teams meet for the deciding game Wednesday night in LA.

NPR's Asma Khalid and ESPN's Michele Steele talk about college football championship weekend, a huge tennis comeback and the MLS playoffs

North Carolina’s Roy Williams retired last week as the third-winningest coach in college basketball history. But WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, says it wasn’t the wins that Williams was thinking about when he decided to leave the job.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Mike "Doc" Emrick, longtime hockey broadcaster, about his retirement and the future of sports broadcasting.

In his history-making visit to the island, the U.S. president talked about Cuba's international contributions, and urged young people to build and benefit from a democracy.

A slice of J Balvin and Bad Bunny's Oasis, a new track from Spain's La Mala and a nice samba party from Rua de Pretas.

The singer died in an airplane that crashed in the early hours of Sunday morning in Toluca, Mexico. She was a household name and feminist presence in the Latin music scene.

Rita Moreno will receive the Kennedy Center Honor next month for her career in show business. With a new gig as a voice in an animated TV series and a new album, there's no way she's done performing.

An opera nominated for a Latin Grammy explores Mexico's current political climate. It's based on a fictional bandida who continues to inspire fear and admiration along the border.

Richard Kadrey — known for his Sandman Slim series of supernatural noirs — reinvents himself in grand fashion with The Grand Dark, a diesel-punk fantasy set in a simulacrum of Weimar Germany.

Food banks and nonprofits say inflation has hurt fundraising and made it hard to handle a surge in demand. One CEO says the need is close to the height of the pandemic.

Rossini's The Barber of Seville is a "prequel" to the story Mozart set in The Marriage of Figaro.

John McAlley is the editor of NPR.org's Books We Like series. A longtime top editor at Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Us and Entertainment Weekly, McAlley has written for GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Spin and NPR.org's Monkey See blog. He has worked as a photo editor at Rolling Stone and been a contributor to Aperture. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

The Interstate 77 Express Lanes have been under construction for four years north of Charlotte. The toll lanes are now open on all 26 miles between…

For the first time, North Carolina has more registered Republicans than Democrats. The meat continues to be in the middle with unaffiliated voters — the largest group of voters. We’re also witnessing more candidates change their party affiliation. How will all that, plus gerrymandered maps, impact the midterms in our state? We examine this changing landscape.

Vashti Cunningham, 18, is on a roll. She set a world junior record and won the world indoor championship in March, while still in high school. She has now turned pro and has her eyes set on Rio.

Friday, December 27, 2019A look back on the most important news stories in 2019. Charlotte’s homicide rate spiked this year and the Queen City was added…

Friday, September 28th, 2018On the local news roundup, reaction to Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, City Council considers four-year terms, Charlotte…