The U.S. is continuing a cautious state-by-state reopening, even as the president urged states to relax their lockdowns during the Memorial Day weekend.
Spectators weren't allowed inside Charlotte Motor Speedway for NASCARs longest race, the Coca-Cola 600. But that didn't stop some fans from making the trip and listening to the roar of engines from an an independently owned motorhome campground a few hundred yards from the track.
People around the country are struggling to find ways to honor fallen heroes on a Memorial Day like no other, with people avoiding crowds to prevent the spread of the virus.
Public health officials say robust testing for the coronavirus is essential to safely lifting stay-at-home orders and business closures, but states are creating confusion in the way they are reporting the data.
Not long after re-opening to dine-in customers Saturday, the staff at Famous Toastery in Wilmington were pleasantly shocked to find a $1,000 tip left for the team from a generous couple.
Nearly two weeks ago the White House urged governors to ensure that every nursing home resident and staff member be tested for the coronavirus within 14 days. It's not going to happen.
You’re no longer forced to get an at-home haircut. Barbershops and salons are back in business now that Governor Cooper is moving forward with his second phase to reopen North Carolina.
President Donald Trump played golf Saturday for the first time since he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency more than two months ago, leading to the shutdown of much of American society. His return to the course was the latest sign that he wants the country back to pre-outbreak ti
There's a hidden risk with keeping hand sanitizer in your car to help protect against COVID-19 and other illnesses, especially during the hot summer months.
Now that Gov. Henry McMaster has announced that youth sports can return around the state, summer baseball games in Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Lancaster, the Columbia area, Horry County and other areas could be the first live sporting events after months of quarantining and social distancing.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, and in some cases, the way we die. Several weeks ago an 81-year-old man passed away at Novant Health in Rowan.
Between May 12 and May 20, a stylist at a Great Clips came in contact with 84 clients and seven coworkers, who now all will be tested for the coronavirus.
Memorial Day weekend is a holiday when many spend time with family on a road trip. Although most will have a relaxing weekend with loved ones, it can be a difficult time for those working in law enforcement.
According to the Springfield-Green County Health Department, the stylist went to work at a Great Clips location in Springfield while showing coronavirus symptoms from May 12 to May 20.
The town’s order, passed Thursday, required people “except for commuters who regularly work in Watauga County," to not enter any establishment open to the public other than medical offices and facilities" until they’ve been in the county uninterrupted for at least two weeks.
North Carolina rules do not yet allow for the reopening of gyms, which is several weeks away under Gov. Roy Cooper’s plan. The YMCA of Greater Charlotte closed its 19 branches on March 17, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Izumi Nakamitsu told an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that “there have also been worrying reports of attacks against health care organizations and medical research facilities worldwide.”
Hertz and its subsidiaries will continue to operate, according to a release from the company. Hertz's principal international operating regions and franchised locations are not included in the filing, the statement said.
While restaurants and businesses deal with the influx of visitors for the Memorial Day weekend, Myrtle Beach police are making sure they can step in and help out businesses if anything gets out of hand.
N.C. Governor Roy Cooper and N.C. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen released a set of recommendations for non-contact sports to resume in Phase 2 of the state’s re-opening plan, which went into effect 5 p.m. Friday.
This data could give us a sense of how many people have contracted COVID-19 and not just the number of people who tested positive, since many people were not able to get tested and others never developed symptoms.
WBTV has dedicated an entire show to highlight positive stories about how helpers and heroes in our community have come together during this global pandemic.
Friday marked the first night of North Carolina’s Phase 2 reopening plan. But as some businesses are allowed to open and many others can’t, it can cause confusions.
Cooper issued Phase Two at 5 p.m. on Friday, meaning that restaurants can serve in its dining rooms at 50 percent and so long as they abide by the sanitization and social distancing guidelines.
Under normal circumstances people who are self-employed wouldn’t qualify for unemployment insurance in North Carolina but thanks to federal funding and a new state law they do.
Sunday marks the 61st running of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The coronavirus pandemic put that milestone in jeopardy, but the race will go on with some safety measures in place.
Atrium Health and Novant Health, in the last two weeks, have administered about 20,500 tests locally, Harris said during a Friday virtual news conference. Harris announced in early May that Mecklenburg aims to test about 55,500 people by early June.
As a result of the spike in cases, most of which occurred in the past week, Hoar Construction decided to shut down the job site until June 1, Randall Curtis, the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
Many governments — even those where the virus is still on the rise — say they have to shift their focus to saving jobs that are vanishing as quickly as the disease can spread.
State Senate leader Phil Berger is demanding answers from the North Carolina prison system following a news report from WBTV and a statewide network of reporters Thursday that revealed the death of a Caswell Correctional Center nurse diagnosed with COVID-19.
Friday’s report in the journal Lancet is not a rigorous test of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, but it is by far the largest look at their use in real world settings, spanning 671 hospitals on six continents.
NASA and SpaceX are urging spectators to stay at home next Wednesday for safety reasons. Officials in Brevard County, home to the Kennedy Space Center, are rolling out the welcome mat in an effort to jump-start a tourism industry hit hard this spring by coronavirus-related lockdowns.
That hesitancy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak could muffle any recovery from what has been the sharpest and swiftest economic downturn in U.S. history.
Impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people in Washington state to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits.
How to keep your kids keep from falling behind in this unprecedented learning environment. That is what a task force in South Carolina is trying to figure out. South Carolina’s Accelerate Ed task force met today to discuss how they plan on having summer schools in districts across the state.
North Carolina health officials are reporting the first case of a serious children’s illness named Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in the state.
As Americans confront a crisis unlike any in modern times, the world’s greatest deliberative body is doing almost anything but deliberate the coronavirus.
Two months passed without an eviction in South Carolina, a judge stopped them in March so people wouldn’t be without the one place South Carolinians were urged to stay in.
They have installed Plexiglas between employees and the customers and will be seating customers at every other chair. They will require customers to wash their hands, and ask them to wear face masks.
Secretary Azar toured Atrium Health’s Med-1, a mobile hospital that’s parked in front of Charlotte Motor Speedway, and met with local legislators and health leaders for a round table discussion on the coronavirus pandemic.
Pandemic politics shadowed President Donald Trump’s trip to Michigan on Thursday to highlight lifesaving medical devices, with the president and officials from the electoral battleground state clashing over federal aid, mail-in ballots and face masks.
Schools and graduating seniors are finding ways to celebrate their accomplishments in unique ways after this coronavirus pandemic ruined their ceremony plans.
When Gov. Roy Cooper announced Phase 2 of reopening the state would begin Friday, gyms were not among the list of businesses that got the go-ahead to reopen.
With at least some amount of remote instruction a likely part of the 2020-21 school year, the State Board of Education approved a set of requirements all school districts and other public schools, including charters, must meet in drafting remote instruction plans due this summer.
