Bilingual mask ambassadors from diverse communities will soon be frequenting businesses across Charlotte and surrounding towns, ensuring residents are following crucial health guidelines to slow the spread of COVD-19.
A federal judge has upheld the convictions of two men found to be trying to bribe North Carolina’s top insurance regulator with political contributions so that scrutiny of a defendant’s businesses would be eased.
A county in western North Carolina has joined the neighboring city of Asheville to apologize for its role in slavery and to take the rare step of supporting reparations for Black residents.
Wednesday night Mecklenburg County staff and CMPD laid out a two part enforcement plan to ensure local businesses are complying with local and state COVID-19 restrictions.
Lincoln County resident Kaylee Tackett is a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but this coming semester she will be doing all of her learning from her home in Lincolnton.
Officials have announced the health protocols for the official business of the 2020 Republican National Convention taking place in Charlotte amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While some colleges and universities across the country have gone totally online for the fall, App State will have a mixture of online and in-person classes.
State health officials are urging residents to be vigilant in practicing social distancing and wearing masks to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 amid public health experts’ concerns over the recent rise in COVID-19 data trends in South Carolina.
WBTV continues investigating surprise medical bills as a woman called for help after going to the emergency room, paying a copay, and still ended up with a big bill.
Three suspects have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 68-year-old man who sold ice cream from a small cart he pushed around a Texas neighborhood.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department announced policy changes and clarifications that have been made in recent weeks following discussions across the country calling for police reform.
Now, after 1,022 races at 71 circuits in 32 countries featuring 765 different drivers Formula One is back where it all began for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix.
A Mount Pleasant committee will vote Wednesday on a resolution that would name racism as a threat to public health, which its authors hope would help in the fight to end systemic racism.
Neil Young has sued President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, saying he doesn’t want his music used as a theme song for what he calls a divisive un-American campaign of ignorance and hate.
One school employee broke down in tears at the end of the meeting after only two board members addressed teacher’s concerns who came to the meeting to speak.
Even though William R. King II was elected in 2017, Judge William A. McKinnon ruled Friday that King “was not qualified to be a candidate for city council at the time he was elected and he, therefore, must forfeit his office,” court records show.
It costs $2,000 per device, paid for with COVID-19 relief money. 13 ambulances in Burke County have them installed so far. More will be getting the devices, say officials.
On Tuesday, Jaylin Clyburn held his second backpack and school supply drive. He also had one on Saturday. Jaylin says he wanted to make sure every kid’s hand was filled with a backpack.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says an announcement is likely Wednesday regarding the status of the phases of reopening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Damaging winds and likely tornadoes spun out from the storm, including one in Bertie County that tragically killed two people and sent about a dozen others to the hospital.
Making landfall in southern North Carolina near Ocean Isle Beach around 11:10 Monday night as a category one hurricane, Isaias is now a tropical storm as it races north into Virginia.
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A combination of the high tide and storm surge from Hurricane Isaias appears to have resulted in the deaths of over 100 baby sea turtles in the Cherry Grove area of North Myrtle Beach.
Police in Salisbury have released details on a crash that resulted in one driver being pinned in a pickup truck until he could be rescued by firefighters.
A tornado that touched down at a mobile home park in Bertie County, North Carolina killed at least one and left several people missing, local officials said.
Police have arrested a suspect accused of shooting a man in the parking lot of an eastern Iowa funeral home where he was attending the funeral of his 8-year-old son, who died of cancer.
The eye of Hurricane Isaias came on shore at Ocean Isle Beach around 11 p.m. Monday, sparking a series of fires at homes and bringing a lot of flooding, according to Mayor Debbie Smith.
The presidential election is just three months away and political scientists who study North Carolina politics say there’s new data that show trends on how North Carolinian’s plan to cast their voice this November. According to Dr. Michael Bitzer, who runs the Old North State Politics blog, says th
As part of an operation targeting “Fish Arcades” CMPD and other law enforcement agencies visited more than 200 establishments and issued more than a dozen citations for businesses in violation of local and state COVID-19 orders.
