At The Pauline Tea-bar Apothecary, a no-WiFi sanctuary in west Charlotte, Sherry Waters built a place that makes people say: I needed this.

Andrew Dunn’s “The Change Agent” is a Charlotte story — the mayor years that built McCrory before the governorship unmade him.

Photographer Logan Cyrus spent six months finding the human moments inside Charlotte’s strangest season of governance. A photo essay.

The analytics say the Hornets won the LaMelo Ball trade. But numbers don’t measure what a city feels — or what you tell a 6-year-old whose No. 1 jersey just became a historical artifact.

Charlotte’s city council named Rob Harrington interim mayor. And for once, the process worked.

The Advocate Health CEO has taken Charlotte’s community hospital and turned it into the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system. But it hasn’t come without criticism. At $25 million a year and in the middle of a fight over WakeMed, he may be the most consequential — and questioned — leader in modern Charlotte.

As Leading on Opportunity sunsets this month, departing director Sherri Chisholm sat down to talk about what Charlotte built, what’s changing, and who moves between the rooms now

Two years after a morning that left her with a traumatic brain injury and mounting medical bills, a Charlotte mother wants to make sure families in similar situations have a good summer.

Six Charlotte spots to work remotely and actually get things done — from a West Side archive to a med-school coffee bar.

Six months into the job, Charlotte’s first woman police chief has built her administration on a deep well of relationships — and, at least for now, avoided the chaos engulfing the rest of city leadership.