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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.

"The Office" might be more popular now than when it signed off in 2013. Rolling Stone's Andy Greene looks at "the untold story" behind a show that many - including its cast - doubted would last long, much less become a cultural powerhouse.

Experts say diets don't work. Not for long-term weight loss, anyway. So why do we keep trying them and supporting the multi-billion-dollar diet industry? We explore a possible solution to escape "diet culture" – intuitive eating.

Can companies mix business with politics without losing customers? It's a tough act to pull off in our hyper-politicized climate.

On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop the counting of votes for the electoral college. Where do we go from here? We sit down with reporters and analysts and get their reaction.

Last week, a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol attempted to overturn the presidential election. As the final days of Trump’s presidency are upon as, where does North Carolina — and the nation — go from here?

Mayor Vi Lyles starts the year presiding over a very busy Charlotte City Council faced with questions involving not only the city but council, itself. We’ll go through all that and get her reaction to what happened last week in Washington, D.C.

NPR’s David Greene, longtime reporter and host of Morning Edition. He’s about to make a change in his sleep-deprived, bicoastal life, and we talk about that and more.

If you’re stuck at home and looking for something to do, join the thousands of people starting home improvement projects. We get some tips on this trend and find out how to get the best return on your investment when you embark on your own improvement project.

2020 has been a year like no other. The news will continue into 2021, but on our last edition of the local news roundup for the year, we took stock of the biggest local and regional stories of 2020.