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After the experience of the past 16 months, our wires are fried. But medical experts have a narrow interpretation of what it means to be burned out. Dr. Lucy McBride says it's past time to redefine burnout.

We check in on the Charlotte-area restaurant scene to understand how the industry made it through the pandemic and the issues that restaurants face as businesses are opening back up.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing as the delta variant spreads throughout the United States. What does it mean for the pandemic?

A retired U.S. Army brigadier general with a Southern upbringing came to see the heroes of the Confederacy as treasonous. He shares his thoughts on busting the myths of the "lost cause."

On the Local News Roundup: the dispute between Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the Mecklenburg County Commission has been settled. Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones turns down UNC Chapel Hill’s offer of tenure. And the delta variant becomes dominant.

Shopping habits are changing and that means retailers and shopping malls are going out of business with the loss of thousands of jobs. But what does this mean for Charlotte shoppers?

In the latest installment of WFAE’s health care series The Price We Pay, we take a look at medication costs. Americans spend twice as much on medical care as people in other wealthy countries, and one of the reasons is the high prices of our prescription drugs. We pay, on average, 2 1/2 times for the same medicines. Why? Mike Collins and a panel of experts discuss.

Health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic are burned out. With patient counts near record levels, what has been and what is likely to be the impact? Health care workers from Charlotte area hospitals share their thoughts.

On the night of Sept 7, a sleeping 3-year-old boy was shot and killed after 150 rounds of bullets were shot into his home, police said. Two days earlier, a 16-year-old also lost his life to gun violence; a 14-year-old was arrested for that homicide. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police suspect these cases are connected and have ties to area high schools. Local activists and violence experts join us to discuss how teens are getting guns, and what can be done to prevent the deadly violence.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted this week to maintain a mask mandate in schools, while Lincoln County's school board voted to make masks optional. Union County Public Schools stopped contact tracing and quarantines, but state health officials told the school board there to follow COVID-19 requirements or face possible legal action. Mecklenburg County employees are suspended for noncompliance of COVID testing rules and fear is high at three area schools connected to recent shootings.

The city of Charlotte approves new redistricting maps but leaves Hidden Valley residents upset. There's turmoil in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools surrounding guns and violence and many in the community are blaming superintendent Earnest Winson. Questions we raised last week about Atrium Health’s request for money are also raised at the county commission meeting. And Cam Newton is headed back to Charlotte and the Carolina Panthers.

Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud. But one instance of fraud in a 2018 North Carolina election continues to reverberate nationwide. We discuss a new book about the 2018 race for the 9th Congressional District authored by two Charlotte-area reporters.

How the city of Charlotte became the city it is today and the impact our history still has on contemporary residents.

On the Local News Roundup: Mike Collins recaps the lesser-known Mecklenburg County races from this week’s election day. Mask mandates get a second look in Mecklenburg. Vaccines for kids 5 to 11 have been approved and are on their way. And guns found at Huntersville's Hopewell High School prompts discussion among CMS leaders about security.

The National Rifle Association is perhaps the most powerful gun rights organization in the country. But it now faces a lawsuit that could dissolve the group altogether. We speak with an investigative reporter to learn about the slow decline of the NRA and what the future of gun rights in America might look like without it.

Have you developed some unexplainable bad habits during the pandemic like procrastination, stress-eating, even endless scrolling on the Internet? One neuroscientist said it could be connected to anxiety and he tells us how to break the cycle.

Mike Collins and Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles catch up on all things Charlotte in their monthly discussion on Charlotte Talks. The two are scheduled to talk about new election maps, the racial equity initiative, funding for transit expansion and the proposed innovation district.

This week, we revisit our series The Price We Pay for health care taking a deep dive each day into different aspects of this complicated issue and at its effect on us all.

On this week's Local News Roundup: Mecklenburg County says our COVID-19 positivity numbers are not good enough to remove the mask mandate. Gov. Roy Cooper says he’ll sign the budget bill after an interminable delay, saying the good “outweighs the bad.” Hundreds of Hopewell High School parents attend a town hall after guns were found at school, and Cam Newton returns to the Panthers with surprising success.

On Nov. 15, members of the Retire the Red Raider coalition and the Metrolina Native American Association held a demonstration in Gaston County to call for South Point High to retire its Red Raider mascot. We hear from people who want the mascot gone and learn why such mascots can be harmful to Native Americans.