Born on Rock: How Rock Hill turned the failed Panthers project into a comeback
Four years after losing the NFL, Rock Hill’s having a banner summer.
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth in Charlotte
A photo essay of the last remaining pay phones in Charlotte, and the many ways people still use them to communicate
Let’s Build a Bridge: The Man Trying to Rebuild Trust in Charlotte
Dae-Lee Arrington is mounting a campaign to reconnect the people who run Charlotte — before the city’s biggest decisions arrive this fall. He started by asking nine of the city’s most accomplished artists to make a song.
Raise Up
While Charlotte debates a curfew, Monique Perry-Graves and Road to Hire are staging a different kind of teen takeover.
Pick Your Own Cup at The Pauline
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.
“The Rise and Reckoning” of Pat McCrory, Now In One New Book
Andrew Dunn’s “The Change Agent” is a Charlotte story — the mayor years that built McCrory before the governorship unmade him.
The Six Months That Reshaped Charlotte’s City Hall
Photographer Logan Cyrus spent six months finding the human moments inside Charlotte’s strangest season of governance. A photo essay.
Get Used to It, Kid
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.
They could’ve chosen more chaos. They didn’t.
Charlotte’s city council named Rob Harrington interim mayor. And for once, the process worked.
How Gene Woods Runs
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.