The Joshua Murray Boating Safety and Education Center at Blythe Landing honors late Cornelius officer Joshua Murray.

MANA Nutrition's Fitzgerald, Georgia plant churns out peanut-based therapeutic food for starving children worldwide as the nonprofit seeks new delivery channels.

Uptown Shelby's Veterans Day parade is set for 10 a.m. Nov. 11.

Polk Fest filled the 21-acre Pineville site with games, crafts and living history, proceeds funding future programs there.

The free event runs 3 to 7 p.m. at Rotary Centennial Pavilion, with a beer garden and children's activities for families.

Cancer for College has awarded nearly 250 scholarships to Carolinas cancer survivors pursuing a college degree.

Mecklenburg County broke ground on a reimagined Latta Place that will finally name the 65 enslaved people who lived there.

More than 100 corgis will dash across Renaissance Park next Saturday, with raffle proceeds benefiting the Humane Society of Charlotte.

A 4,000-person survey finds Charlotte-area renters far gloomier than homeowners, with housing costs topping every resident's worry list.

SouthPark's Thanksgiving race marks its 37th year while supporting CMPD's annual Christmas Project.

Lori Bakker says her husband of 28 years ‘went home to be with the Lord’ Monday evening. He built and lost a $158 million empire.

Gaston County's biggest festival returns Oct. 9-11 with a 1900 cotton gin, free shuttles, and a lakeside concert stage.

Organizers need up to 200 acres north of N.C. 150 before the festival can return after this year's Oct. 16-18 flight.