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Democrat Mo Green won the race for superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina over controversial Republican Michele Morrow, 51-49%. He'll succeed Republican Catherine Truitt next year.

Charlotte City Attorney Patrick Baker's last day with the city will be Dec. 31, according to a memo he sent to city leaders last week.

On the next Charlotte Talks, a new book has compiled the best sports writing of the year. We speak with the book's editor about America’s fascination with sport and why the subject can appeal to more than just athletes.

Fabienne Gnos

Local artist David French has been painting Charlotte’s landmarks for nearly two decades. In his private studio in NoDa, French has more than 500 different paintings of Charlotte and draws between 30 to 100 drawings a year.

Duke Energy plans to rebuild three of its substations in western North Carolina after Helene's catastrophic damage.

Thanksgiving is about gathering with family and friends to enjoy a hearty meal and maybe watch some football. But for a few hundred people, today it's about gathering in uptown Charlotte to play chess.

The Thanksgiving parade in uptown Charlotte will kick off later Wednesday evening, and final preparations are being made all along the parade route.

Charlotte's only independent movie theater is opening its fourth — and largest — auditorium this Thanksgiving Day, nearly doubling its footprint.

A new report by the Network For Public Education looks at the rate of charter school closures across the country. Researchers for the group, which advocates for traditional public schools, identified what they described as an alarmingly high rate of closures among charter schools. In North Carolina, that rate was much lower than the country’s average.