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Many counties across North Carolina held municipal elections on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Election results for Mecklenburg and surrounding counties are here.

Many counties across North Carolina held primary elections on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Election results for Mecklenburg and surrounding counties are here.

The 2022 Winter Olympics is being held from Feb. 4-22 in Beijing. In a rare event, the Winter Olympics are being held less than a year after the summer Olympic Games. The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo were actually held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — still a worldwide problem in 2022 as athletes head to China for the winter games.

WFAE has teamed up with David "Dae-Lee" Arrington to present a special nine-part discussion series, "Bridge Builder Conversations." You can find excerpts of the series below and view the full series on YouTube.

Following our series The Price We Pay, WFAE partnered with Jeanne Pinder, CEO and founder of the media company Clear Health Costs, on a series of columns to help you find ways to navigate your health care costs.

WFAE's reporters, editors, producers and hosts worked tirelessly throughout 2021 to tell the stories that mattered most in the Charlotte area. Here's a look at some of our best work.

In a 6 to 3 decision on June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, reversing the court's 50-year-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The court's action also set off trigger laws that banned or severely restricted abortions in some states and prompted protests across the country.

Business and government officials are preparing for a potential nationwide rail strike beginning Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, while talks carry on between the largest U.S. freight railroads and their unions. Commuters, food producers, refineries and others could all be affected.

At least 40,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students identify as Latino. Many were struggling before the coronavirus pandemic and studies show they have now fallen further behind in school. WFAE examines the obstacles facing Latino students and the resources available to help them succeed.

Municipal elections were held Tuesday, July 26 in Charlotte, Mooresville, Hickory and Statesville. The elections are in July this year because the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the census data that municipalities rely on to draw districts.

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Madalina, who lives in Cornelius and attends Bailely Middle School, was reported missing Dec. 15. The last independently confirmed sighting of Madalina was two days earlier on Nov. 21. The Cornelius Police Department, FBI and SBI are investigating her disappearance.

Journalists from four Charlotte news outlets — The Charlotte Observer, Qnotes, WCNC and WFAE — joined forces to tell these stories. We set out to answer whether what works in other cities could be part of Charlotte’s efforts to alleviate the affordable housing crisis — a Solutions City, of sorts.

A winter storm led Southwest Airlines to cancel more than 60% of its flights this week over the holiday season, leaving hundreds of thousands of travelers in limbo.

WFAE wants to hear from you. Join us as we tell the story of how the Charlotte region rebuilds its communities, institutions, businesses and individual lives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Submit your story at https://www.wfae.org/rebuildingcharlotte.

Power substations at the Duke Energy West End location in Moore County, N.C., were damaged in an attack that left tens of thousands of people without electricity. Click the headline to see more articles about the attack and recovery.

Political coverage of North Carolina often focuses on the Democratic Party’s ascending coalition — young voters, minority voters, and college-educated professionals. The general narrative is that this group will finally have a breakthrough to win a presidential or U.S. Senate race. In this series, we look at why this hasn’t happened.

In 2015, two Myers Park High School students went into the woods at the edge of the school campus. The female student, who was a minor, said she’d been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, while the 18-year-old male student said she had voluntarily skipped class and had sex with him. The lawsuit filed in 2018 against CMS, the city of Charlotte and the individuals who handled the female student’s assault report has gone to trial.

Wood from the Carolinas is increasingly being used overseas for energy. While the industry creates jobs, communities are also paying a price. Our ongoing coverage looks at the local and global policy debate and the communities feeding the world’s appetite for wood energy.

A skyline that sprouts new buildings at a dizzying pace. Neighborhoods dotted with new breweries and renovated mills. Thousands of new apartments springing up beside light rail lines. The signs of Charlotte’s booming prosperity are everywhere. But that prosperity isn’t spread evenly. And from Charlotte’s “corridors of opportunity,” it can seem a long way off, more like a distant promise than the city’s reality.