Elvis Menayese

Charlotte City Council members voted 7-4 Monday to support the state's plans to add toll lanes to Interstate 77, a move that makes the controversial $4 billion project virtually certain to move forward.

A driver who struck and killed a former Queens University student-athlete in Charlotte's NoDa neighborhood earlier this year pleaded guilty Tuesday in Mecklenburg County Superior Court.

The philanthropic group Southern Black Girls and Women Consortium will make its final stop of a nine-city Southern tour Sunday in Charlotte. The tour aims to spotlight and celebrate community members.

More than 50 people gathered at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in uptown Charlotte over the weekend for a celebration of Afro-descendant women and the cultures of the African diaspora.

A forum and film screening during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October will aim to help community members in Charlotte recognize patterns of abuse and ways to overcome them.

A new Charlotte initiative aims to raise awareness about HIV among Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by the virus.

A groundbreaking ceremony in Huntersville on Monday marked the start of construction on an $11.2 million redevelopment project at a historic site that closed five years ago amid controversy tied to a Juneteenth celebration.

Members of the Charlotte group New Generation of African American philanthropists will travel Friday to Alabama for a three-day pilgrimage focused on the Civil Rights Movement.

Over the past four years, the number of alcohol-related visits to hospital emergency departments in Mecklenburg County has risen each year, with more than 10,000 visits projected this year. About 75% of last year's visits were tied to alcohol intoxication. In Charlotte, health care experts assess what might be driving the increase, the impacts of excessive drinking, and how support programs are helping people in recovery.

A ceremony in downtown Rock Hill Thursday honored and retraced the steps of the Freedom Riders, activists who rode buses into the Jim Crow-era South in 1961 to push for desegregation.