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Mike Collins and a roundtable of reporters discuss the swirl of issues surrounding education as schools prepare to welcome students back to the classroom. From declining public school enrollment to COVID, school safety concerns, and more.

While the most famous shipwreck in the world may be the Titanic, there are an estimated three million ships sitting at the bottom of the ocean. We talk to one author that argues there is much to learn about technology, failure and progress both below and above the surface from these lonely vessels in his new book "Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic."

Members of Gen Z have reached the minimum age for running for Congress: 25. Their lives have been shaped by change and tumult. Mike Collins and our panel look at how that has shaped the Gen Z approach to politics and what it might mean for the country.

Republicans in South Carolina tried to pass a bill banning abortions in the state but failed. A day later, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed federal legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks. But according to the latest Winthrop Poll, 75% of residents in 11 southern states including the Palmetto State believe a woman should be able to get a legal abortion. We talk about that poll and abortion politics.

We revisit a conversation with author Dan Chapman about his new book "A Road Running Southward." Chapman follows the environmental journey John Muir made through the South in the 1860s. He compares the region then to the region now and explores the price we are paying for industrial growth.

North Carolina is often a bellwether for national elections. But one author writes that, for better or worse, the state also influences things like judicial laws, political spending and gerrymandering. We speak with James Piltch about the outsized influence of the Tar Heel State on national politics.

Charlotte’s new City Council holds its first meeting and shuffles the deck. The Department of Justice sends $1 million to the city’s Alternatives to Violence program. The SBI is asked to investigate Councilman James Mitchell. And, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposes a federal abortion ban. Those stories and more.

After a year that has been like a canary in the coal mine, we examine the permanent planet-changing and life-altering consequences of unbridled climate change.

As the end of 2020 approaches and a COVID-19 vaccine is trickling across the nation, unemployment remains stubbornly high. We sit down with local and state experts to understand the impact of the ongoing crisis.

Just like everything else in 2020, the holiday shopping season will look very different this year. What retailers and shoppers might expect.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat sent up a red flag in January 2017 that an authoritarian was about to take office. Have the ensuing years only proven her right?

The partisan warfare of the 1990s laid the groundwork for today's politics, says the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent.

In 1898, Wilmington was the site of a rare event, the violent overthrow of a duly elected local government. White supremacists forced black officials to resign at gunpoint. Journalist David Zucchino shares the story.

City leaders are putting together a plan to expand Charlotte's public transit systems, from the light rail and bus lanes to additional greenways and bike paths. We speak with the key players to see how far the tracks might run.

When Charlotte’s Major League Soccer team chose the old Eastland Mall site for its headquarters and practice fields, it was hailed as manna from heaven. Scratch that. Change of plans. We’ll fill you in on that and on new safety reforms at CMPD, CMS plans for returning students to the classroom even as COVID-19 cases rise, and the record turnout for early voting and mail in ballots. What does that portend? Those stories and more on the local news roundup.

This Election Day eve marks 100 years since presidential elections entered a new era with the first commercial radio broadcast of election returns.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. We get a refresher on how our democracy is supposed to work.

The wild election year crossed the finish line in record fashion, but the voters' verdicts on the presidency are still being deciphered.

In the wake of perhaps the most divisive election in recent memory, is there anything that can be done to reunite a deeply divided America?

What is supposed to be a milestone in the pandemic is coming as North Carolina notched new records of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.