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Hackers breached a student data platform used by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, district officials told employees Wednesday. Canvas is an online learning management system where students access assignments and materials. It’s owned by an education technology company called Instructure. It’s widely used by school districts around the country and roughly 41% of colleges and universities in North America. Over the weekend, Instructure was hacked by...

Mecklenburg County says it will take steps to ensure youth in foster care receive required 90-day reviews involving their parents, caregivers and others connected to their case. The move comes after an advocacy group surveyed local foster parents and found the reviews were not happening consistently, if at all. Under...

Overnight rain has already taken a toll on the Charlotte area, for better and for worse, and it isn’t over yet.

STALLINGS, N.C. – A proposed motel near a school is stirring controversy in Stallings. Whetstone Motel would sit on 10 acres of land on Whetstone Drive. A local developer, R.D. Harrell wants to build a three story motel with 340 rooms near Primrose School. “This is a real concern,...

Police in Matthews are asking the public to be on the lookout for a person accused of breaking into apartments around town.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Those in charge of the Truist Championship constantly claim that the event is aimed to serve as a celebration of Charlotte and the city’s culture. Wednesday’s Pro-Am at Quail Hollow Club certainly fell in line with that mission. Several QC celebrities teed it up...

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte-Mecklenburg students are among millions nationwide affected by a recent cybersecurity attack on a major online learning management system (LMS). The district was notified of a security breach involving Instructure, a third-party vendor of Canvas, that occurred over the weekend. Canvas, a system used by students and teachers […]

Louis Anthony Chighisola, 39, died Sunday, May 3, from injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle collision.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two lanes of Interstate 85 South between Winston-Salem and Charlotte are closed following a fatal crash involving an overturned tractor-trailer near Exit 79 at Andrews Street, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Troopers confirmed that a tractor-trailer overturned in the crash and that at...

“I am shaking,” Eileen Reimer, an Atlanta-based retiree, says as she takes home the keys to the waterfront abode on Lake Wylie in North Carolina