A top executive with Atrium Health said the hospital could look to move its business operations elsewhere as state financial regulators express skepticism at the hospital’s request to re-finance hundreds-of-millions of dollars of debt from a hospital it bought in Georgia last year.
A woman said she was meeting someone to purchase a phone that was advertised for sale on Marketplace through Facebook. Police say the woman was with two other people when they were robbed at gunpoint and the suspect fled the scene.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, officers responded to Fernledge Court in reference to an assault with deadly weapon call around at 6:16 p.m.
The committee tasked with studying the high number of cases of rare eye cancer in the Huntersville area met Friday morning to update the community on what is happening in that process.
CMPD’s Animal Care and Control office started a “Staycation” program which allows you to go to the shelter, find a dog, sign a waiver and take them to play for a while with no commitment.
A new study from Harvard University has found drinking at least two sugar drinks a day increases your risk of early death by more than 20 percent. It’s an eye-opening study because for the first time - researchers have been able to make a direct correlation between sugar drinks to mortality.
The proposed policy would limit exempt employees to retaining 80 comp hours per year even though some employees currently earn in excess of 240 hours in a year.
According to CMPD, Officer Alex Milhazes, 29, got into an altercation with a woman at the pool of an apartment complex on Lucy Jane Lane in south Charlotte around 6 p.m. Sunday. The report states Milhazes pushed the woman then “slammed a gate on her ankle.”
Charlotte city leaders are considering whether to try to save the Excelsior Club, long a cornerstone in Charlotte’s African American community, after other groups’ efforts faltered or were rejected by the club’s owner.
The event features not only opportunities to create your own art, workshops, panels and (of course) cosplay contests, there are dozens of artists and storytellers behind the comics that come out personally to meet with their fans.
Right now, CATS is looking two options to get to Ballantyne, both parallel to I-485. And to get to Pineville, two options as well - one on the 485 side of Carolina Place Mall, the other along NC-51.
Speaking in Pittsburgh Wednesday to a group of visiting government and business leaders from Charlotte, Tepper articulated another way he’d like to expand the team’s geographic reach: A high-speed train connecting Charlotte with Winston-Salem and the Raleigh-Durham area.
In the first year, the city budget funded the Jump Start Micro grant with $50,000. That amount increased to $100,000. in the second year. In the upcoming fiscal year, the grant will have $500,000. to distribute.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden says he does not endorse a revised bill that would require local sheriffs to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Officials say the combined bank will be the sixth-largest U.S. bank holding company serving more than 10 million households in the U.S., with a leading presence in many high-growth markets in the country.
An Army official says a cadet in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps will be removed from the program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for posting racist, anti-Semitic and "pro-Nazism" messages on social media
Monday, Charlotte City Council unanimously referred The Excelsior Club to the city's Economic and Development Committee. At -Large City Councilman James Mitchell is the chair. He will instruct city staff to see how much money it will take to bring the building back up to code.
Time is running out for the Excelsior Club located in West Charlotte. It is the first black club in Charlotte, NC. It opened in 1944 and closed its doors in 2016. There was a one year moratorium set from demolishing the historic landmark.
A judge has ruled Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney will not be held in contempt of court over the department’s handling of video depicting a deadly officer-involved shooting that played out in a Burger King parking lot in March.
Even though the start of the NFL season is still months away, several Carolina Panthers fans met at Taproom Social in uptown Charlotte for a special gathering Thursday night.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, since May 13, 2019, a series of eight armed robberies have happened at different businesses in the Charlotte area.
The incident happened around 6 a.m. at a home on Archdale Drive, which runs between Nations Ford Road and Old Pineville Road near I-77 in south Charlotte.
The family of a 16-year-old who was shot and killed while sleeping before school at a north Charlotte home Wednesday morning are desperately seeking answers.
In a notice CATS published on a city website, the transportation authority did not provide details of the proposal, other than that it was for a mixed-use development.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board members held a special meeting Wednesday afternoon specifically to evaluate Superintendent Dr. Clayton Wilcox and “issues with his performance," sources say.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary McFadden said he “dared” anyone to say he wasn’t concerned public safety after US Attorney Andrew Murray claimed McFadden’s policies were putting people in danger.
An autopsy released Wednesday states Jonathan Holt Whitlow had at least 29 stab wounds when he was found dead, duct taped and wrapped in a blanket in the closet of Andrew Houston's bedroom.
Susan Westwood was charged with misuse of the 911 system and two counts of simple assault in connection with the incident, which happened at the Camden Fairview apartment complex on October 19, 2018.
Hundreds of people gathered in Rock Hill’s Fountain Park Wednesday morning for a pep rally to celebrate the Carolina Panthers moving team headquarters to South Carolina.
The board decided Tuesday night that the Rea Farms school will be a K-8 partial magnet, with 70 percent of students assigned and 30 percent getting to choose to go to that school.
A Charlotte family was reunited with their 6-year-old Wheaten Terrier that was missing for over a week after a chaotic car crash near the North Carolina coast.
An alum of Harding University High School in Charlotte is raising awareness after learning multiple students from the school can’t afford their caps and gowns for graduation.
The chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners opened Tuesday’s night’s meeting with a monologue that attacked a fellow commissioner and local media after questions surfaced about whether the commissioners violated state open meetings laws in discussing changes to the county’s budget
Investigators found minors worked after 7 p.m. on school nights, worked more than three hours on a school day, worked more than eight hours on a non-school day and worked after 9 p.m. during the summer. All FLSA violations.
On Tuesday, Atrium Health and Fifth Third Bank announced they will donate $10 million each to the Charlotte Housing Opportunity Investment Fund. This brings the total to $44 million raised so far from the private sector.
