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Housing has been a challenge in Charlotte with the city struggling to balance growth and affordability. Historian Tom Hanchett explains in his new book how policymakers and advocates have wrestled with this issue for decades. Hanchett joins us to discuss the history of housing policy in the region and how Charlotte can do better.

The Charlotte Checkers are one win away from playing in the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup Finals.

Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning with both its historical wrongs and its contemporary consequences. Experts on the matter weigh in on the practicality and economics of reparations.

Authorities investigating mass shooting Sunday at home in Hickory. Guns to Gardens initiative comes to Myers Park. The Charlotte Checkers are one win away from the Calder Cup Finals.

Over 20 volunteers participated in the Guns to Gardens initiative in Myers Park over the weekend, which dismantles guns turned in anonymously by community members and repurposes them into gardening tools like shovels.

One of NASCAR’s all-time characters is on the track right now, winning races and infuriating other drivers. But the country at large doesn’t know him. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his "On My Mind" commentary, wonders if it’s too late for NASCAR to get any cultural traction.

During Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones’ budget presentation last month, he presented a slide that showed how little the typical Charlotte household pays in property taxes and fees compared with other North Carolina cities.

Twelve people were shot — one fatally — at a house in the Mountain View community early Sunday, the Catawba County Sheriff's Office said.

Decades ago in west Charlotte, the state built a highway that disrupted an established, predominantly Black neighborhood. Since then, residents have dealt with noise, stormwater and debris from the road — without clear communication about who to contact for each issue. Residents are still asking for relief.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted Thursday to restore some of the funding cuts to community organizations in the county manager’s proposed budget.

UNC Charlotte officials are pushing back after a conservative group called Accuracy in Media published what they say is a video that shows the school is surreptitiously pursuing banned DEI policies.

As North Carolina legislative leaders negotiate a spending plan for the next two years, they’ll have less money to work with than expected.