NASCAR's Hall of Fame chose its Class of 2027 on Tuesday in uptown Charlotte: Kevin Harvick (first ballot, 92 percent of the Modern Era vote), Jeff Burton, and five-time short-track champion Larry Phillips, with Lesa France Kennedy taking the 2027 Landmark Award. Induction is…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
Kyle Larson heads to the Coca-Cola 600 on a 36-race winless streak — his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021 — but Charlotte is a 1.5-mile track, and no driver in the Next Gen era has been better on them.…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
Katherine Legge will attempt the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 "double" on May 24 — the first woman, the oldest driver, and the first foreign-born driver to try the 1,100-mile day. The 45-year-old Brit brings two…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
NASCAR and Bussin' With The Boys are launching "Racin' With The Boys," a 14-episode weekly summer show produced by Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions. The first…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
Council Member Renée Johnson (District 4) brought a manually-compiled CMS school-utilization report to Monday's council meeting to argue that the conventional…
Jack Beckett·May 20, 2026
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sports·May 18, 2026
Carolina Ascent FC beat Sporting Club Jacksonville 3-1 at American Legion Memorial Stadium Saturday night, denying the…
sports·May 18, 2026
Charlotte and Norfolk played six times at Truist Field between Tuesday and Sunday and split the series 3-3. The Tides…
sports·May 18, 2026
Charlotte FC beat Toronto FC 3-1 on Saturday for its first home win since April 4 — its first win anywhere since April…
government·May 16, 2026
Brendan K. Maginnis, the runner-up in Charlotte's September 2025 Democratic mayoral primary, has volunteered for the…
Mecklenburg commissioners got a deliberately neutral briefing on data centers at their May 19 meeting and signaled they want a position on the fast-growing…
Jack Beckett·May 20, 2026
Charlotte City Council unanimously approved a 41.26-acre rezoning of the Atrium Health University City hospital campus Monday, switching the property from…
Jack Beckett·May 20, 2026
Council Member Renée Johnson pulled petition 2025-136 — a conventional rezoning at 1800 West Sugar Creek Road by Larry Cooper — off the consent agenda Monday,…
Jack Beckett·May 19, 2026
Mayor Vi Lyles had not chaired a 2026 zoning meeting through her current term — Council Member Ed Driggs (District 7) handled each of the four held earlier this…
Jack Beckett·May 19, 2026
The Cup field rolls into Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for the Coca-Cola 600 the weekend the country marks its 250th birthday. Mission 600 ran for the…
The NASCAR Guy·May 19, 2026
Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR All-Star Race from the pole at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, beat his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in a side-by-side…
John Speedway·May 18, 2026
sports·May 15, 2026
Spire Motorsports' fifth-annual Spring Fan Day runs Thursday, May 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the team's Mooresville HQ (351…
sports·May 15, 2026
Thursday at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC, NASCAR Cup driver Daniel Suárez and his first-year Spire…