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When professional soccer was announced as coming to Charlotte, the question was raised, is Charlotte a soccer city? We now know the answer: yes! As we enter the second half of the Charlotte FC season, some big games are on the schedule. It’s been an uneven season as far as wins, so we take a look at where the team is headed.

Joe Posnanski has set out to chronicle special moments in baseball history. His book, “Why We Love Baseball,” details instances such as Babe Ruth's called shot and the Japanese pitcher who went to extreme lengths to achieve a strikeout record. Posnanski joins guest host Erik Spanberg to discuss those moments and more.

On the next Charlotte Talks, we take a close look at the findings just released in Mecklenburg County’s 2025 State of Housing Instability and Homelessness Report, plus a deep dive into the data the Charlotte Urban Institute and Mecklenburg County have collected over the past 10 years.

Governor Roy Cooper introduced legislation Tuesday that would not only repeal House Bill 2 in its entirety, but would enact stricter penalties for certain…

One HB 2 related boycott has come to an end. The NCAA announced Tuesday North Carolina can again host championship events. However, the league wrote the…

Athletic conferences don't make much sense anymore. Commentator Frank Deford remarks on how the Big East conference is no longer as big or as east as it used to be.

Animal Care and Control on Byrum Drive is running its end-of-year “Season of Second Chances” campaign to help fund medical care for injured or sick shelter animals.

The platform will include games from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, NASCAR and college sports, including the men's and women's NCAA Tournament, as well as golf, tennis and the FIFA World Cup.

Duke is promoting Nina King to become the school's next athletics director. King will become only the third Black woman working as an athletics director in the Power Five conferences and is the first woman to serve as Duke's athletics director.

A Charlotte Area Transit System bus driver was hospitalized this week after being attacked on the job, police said. This comes just two months after another driver, Ethan Rivera, was shot and killed in what police described as a road rage incident on the job.

South Korea has been one of the top countries sending babies abroad for adoption for decades. Now, after an investigation triggered by hundreds of complaints from adoptees, the country has admitted its agencies mishandled adoptions.

WFAE's “Fractured” series began with the story of John, a 32-year-old Charlotte man living with severe mental illness and intellectual disabilities. John was arrested more than five years ago and has been in custody ever since — but he’s never had a trial. WFAE caught up with John, where he's still stuck in a system that isn't working well, cycling between the jail and the hospital with no end in sight.

Buttermilk somehow seems perpetually cool and unruffled. It evokes cream without cream's over-the-top heft; its tanginess goes up to the threshold of yogurt and stops just shy. No matter how you cook it, a little bit of buttermilk has a thousand ways of making life taste better.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017A look at the work that goes into keeping Charlotte tap water safe and at some of the challenges in doing so. Then, mosquitos love…

In the latest installment of Still Here, our series about resiliency, WFAE's Sarah Delia speaks to the owner of a Charlotte music venue about surviving the pandemic and two break-ins — one at his place of business, and the other at his own home.

It’s been about two months since protests first erupted in Charlotte over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Here, across the U.S. and the…

NPR's Noel King talks to GOP Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois, ranking member of the House Administration Committee, about reforms needed for U.S. Capitol Police following the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Police are investigating after a Charlotte Area Transit System bus driver was shot and killed in uptown on Friday night. The driver was one of three people to die by homicide in Charlotte this weekend, police said.

Ohio's Twisted Citrus restaurant introduced the Rubber Duckie Mimosa, champagne and blue rasberry lemonade topped with a classic yellow rubber duck, to match its new shower curtain barrier.

President Biden will ask Congress to increase taxes on capital gains for tax filers who make more than $1 million a year — a move the White House says will affect only about 500,000 households.