Last week, council looked poised to vote the policy allowing multi-family units in all placetypes down, but Councilman Greg Phipps changed his vote, giving the majority to councilmembers who wanted to keep the proposed policy.
15-year-old JK Patterson was walking down the street in his own neighborhood early one evening when he was shot. When police arrived, they told him-incorrectly-he'd been hit by a BB gun and made him stand up.
New numbers from the City of Charlotte show 31,795 households applied for rental, mortgage, and utility assistance through the city’s Ramp program while only 11,400 have been approved.
It’s the biggest question parents ask themselves this time of year – what am I doing with my kids over the summer?Typically, that answer for millions of parents is – summer camp.
Have you checked your credit report lately? Now might be the best time. A new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found credit report inaccuracies have increased dramatically.
During a city council meeting Monday evening, more than 100 people signed up to voice their take on the plan. Originally, city staff would have incorporated the feedback into the plan for council approval in April. Now, Mayor Lyles has pushed back the date to June 30th.
Leaders in the North Carolina Senate are warming up to the idea of revisiting the state law that makes police video secret. The conversations come in the wake of a deadly police shooting in Elizabeth City last week.
A WBTV Investigation shows City Manager Marcus Jones has missed his own deadlines for providing new information about Charlotte’s Transformational Mobility Network.
The strip mall, located at 1533 West Blvd near Remount Road, has been the site of numerous assaults, shootings and even a murder. In the lawsuit, US Attorney’s and CMPD describe the property as an “open-air drug market.”
The Charlotte housing market is hot right now. So hot, many people are finding properties they like –only to compete in bidding wars to lock down those properties.
As communities across the nation continue to grapple with high-profile police killings, North Carolina officials have again refused to release information on the deaths of people who died in custody, citing guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The COVID-19 vaccine is now available to all adults and many companies are planning how they’ll get employees back to the office. So can your employee require you to get vaccinated?
Lawmakers, including House Speaker Tim Moore, pushed legislation to change the tax rules related to PPP loans without disclosing that their businesses accepted PPP loans.
The requests, some of which date back more than two years, sought information regarding some of the most impactful moments in the Queen City since 2019.
More than a year into the pandemic, the N.C. office that handles unemployment claims is still not responsive to people trying to sort out their unemployment benefits. In fact, the office is so hard to reach, even a top lawmaker couldn't get through to resolve problems for his constituents.
Thousands of health care workers across North Carolina, charged with the care of patients, have declined to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even as eligibility has opened to the entire state.
A Charlotte homeowner hired a contractor after he was referred by HomeAdvisor but WBTV found a history of complaints against the contractor, raising questions about why he’s being recommended at all.
Public records obtained by WBTV are raising questions about how a small nonprofit spent $3.5 million in federal CARES Act money. An expert calls it 'highly unusual'.
The process of filing a new claim is process is causing confusion for some people as state and federal programs make the determination process more complicated than ever before.
A coalition of seven newsrooms from across North Carolina has worked together over the past year to investigate some of the biggest stories facing the state.
Researchers and leaders at the Carolina Raptor Center are concerned that poison used to kill rats at Tent City could end up hurting birds in the Charlotte area.
The North Carolina office in charge of administering a program designed to help people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic catch up on rent and utility bills is changing how it handles cases, as more than $60 million meant to help people sits unspent.
During a city council meeting Monday evening, more than 100 people signed up to voice their take on the plan. Originally, city staff would have incorporated the feedback into the plan for council approval in April. Now, Mayor Lyles has pushed back the date to June 30th.
The 2040 plan started hitting some speed bumps two weeks ago when councilmembers were concerned that feedback from residents, developers and neighborhood associations wasn’t being reflected in the plan. In response the city set up listening sessions to hear what people had to say about the plan.
The 2040 plan started hitting some speed bumps two weeks ago when councilmembers were concerned that feedback from residents, developers and neighborhood associations wasn’t being reflected in the plan. In response the city set up listening sessions to hear what people had to say about the plan.
A law passed by Congress in 2014 requires law enforcement agencies to report any time someone dies in their custody. The State of North Carolina is refusing to release that information even though the law's author says the data should be public.
Crown Memorial Park in Pineville has been investigated by the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service on numerous occasions and records obtained by WBTV show the company continued selling funeral services without a license over a decade.
The new concessions follow hundreds of complaints to state watchdogs and an investigation by WBTV in January that found AmeriGas had charged a customer $300 to expedite her already delayed delivery.
An employee at Kids R Kids of Huntersville was arrested last June after video showed a three-year-old being assaulted. The boy's parents say the incident should be a warning to other parents that abuse can happen no matter how highly-rated the facility is.
A contract, obtained through a public record request, reveals the city entered into an agreement with a consulting company to provide advice on how councilmembers could operate more efficiently together.
The N.C. Department of Justice has stonewalled efforts to review decades of files where the state crime lab used bad science to send innocent men to prison. That changed after questions from WBTV.
A local woman is trying to figure out how a urinalysis test ended up costing her over a thousand dollars. After fighting the bill with her insurance company and hospital for 2 years, she reached out to WBTV for help.
A backlog of child support cases at the Mecklenburg County courthouse has left hundreds of families in limbo. The courthouse claims it has nothing to do with the backlog, but the child support enforcement office says it can only schedule appointments allowed by the courts.
Although the findings clear any councilmember of direct violations of the city’s ethics guidelines, the review made several recommendations, many of which have been the center of a years-long WBTV investigation into city council ethics.
A WBTV Investigation finds that proposed sidewalks stay on the waiting list for decades and that the rankings for those projects are updated so infrequently they often don’t reflect the changing landscape of communities.
Most of us go to the doctor or a hospital for treatment and pay the bill and figure it’s all taken care of. However, a Charlotte man tonight wants to know why over a year and a half after he paid his bill, a second bill arrived.
Officials said they were “disgusted” about the absence of communication from Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio leading up to the order and said how it continued to unfold was “terrible.”
Two crime reduction units within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are stopping, searching and arresting Black people at a disproportionate rate. Data shows 92% of people arrested by the two units in a 12-month period were Black.
There have been dozens of cases across the state of people skipping the line and getting the COVID-19 vaccine earlier than they were supposed to. The line skipping comes as many North Carolinians 65 and older still wait to be inoculated.
The N.C. HOPE Grant program has only spent $42 million of $160 million set aside to help people pay their rent and utility bills. State officials have approved a total of $120 million in grant awards but cannot explain why it's taking so long to get checks cut.
WBTV Investigates has been able to help our viewers save more than $177,000 in less than a year. Out of that, almost half was related to surprise medical bills.
It’s been years since the City of Charlotte actively pursued a nuisance abatement strategy on troubled properties, but the lessons of the past will be pertinent to finding success today.
Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell says Charlotte and local towns will have to pass their own non-discrimination legislation to make a bigger impact that’s actually enforceable.
A computer program built by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is being blamed by hospitals and health departments across the state as a reason why COVID-19 vaccine distribution is moving slowly. The state has spent $7 million on the system, when the government version was free.
When you require surgery or hospitalization, most of us look for an in network hospital covered by our insurance. An Indian Trail woman says she followed all the rules and went to an in network hospital - only to be hit with a huge bill.
A Charlotte area woman is trying to figure out how she ended up with a huge bill for a minor medical issue - all because she went to the wrong office and nobody told her until she got a huge bill!
The N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network surveyed local health departments across the state to find out why North Carolina has ranked near the bottom of states in administering the COVID-19 vaccine. We found a lack of manpower, technical problems and logistical hurdles.
A Matthews man was arrested in Washington, D.C. Wednesday as part of the violent group of pro-Trump supporters that stormed the United States Capitol, causing chaos and bloodshed. He's one of seven arrested on Wednesday with North Carolina ties.
