Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s major hub status is not guaranteed in the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger, according to Senate testimony Wednesday.

Last weekend, the Mint Museum Uptown showcased a Colombian-born painter whose controversial art responded to political and social unrest in her country in the 1940s and 1950s.

Austin Alexander Baeza went out for a walk early one August morning last year, and his body was discovered hours later on the side of a road near Greenville.

Three environmental groups have notified Duke Energy Progress, which serves the eastern Carolinas, that they intend to sue the utility over coal ash-related contamination from the Sutton power plant near Wilmington.

Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill is offering a night under the stars in honor of the Great American Backyard Campout on Friday.

A major interstate interchange in Charlotte will be closed overnight Wednesday for repairs after a tractor trailer overturned and went up in flames on Tuesday.

Waxhaw Mayor Daune Gardner faces an Aug. 15 court date on a driving while impaired charge from this month where her blood-alcohol content level was 0.18., more than twice the legal limit, Union County court records show.

Two challenges have been filed to South Carolina’s permit, renewed earlier this month, that allows the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility Department to spread sewage sludge on 6,400 acres south of Charlotte.

At least two men were wounded, one seriously, in a shootout during a police drug undercover operation Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of Hidden Valley Elementary School in north Charlotte, police say.

Mecklenburg commissioners formally approved a $1.7 billion budget with a 2.35-cent tax rate increase Tuesday night, but not without great theater – and rhetoric.