This North Carolina Renaissance Festival Fills A Fairytale Village With Towering Castles And Live...
Every fall in North Carolina, there’s a place where you can walk through a make-believe village, cheer for a knight on horseback, and munch on a turkey leg the size of your forearm. It feels like stepping straight into a storybook, complete with jugglers, mermaids, and costumes everywhere you look.
This North Carolina Highway Stretch Handles An Astonishing 200,000 Vehicles Every Day
Two hundred thousand vehicles a day is no longer traffic. That is a migration with turn signals. On a particularly busy stretch of North Carolina interstate, the average daily count reached 200,529 vehicles in 2023. For several lanes of asphalt between two interchanges, that is an extraordinary amount of commuting pack
Stallings Hospital Breaks Ground On $116M Tower After Visits Jump 127%
Atrium Health Union West has broken ground on a $116 million patient tower, adding more than 67,000 square feet to a Stallings hospital that opened just four years ago and has already been overwhelmed by demand. The project will bring 88 new patient rooms and 11 new emergency department bays to the campus, along with a
A look at how Ballantyne and southeast Charlotte continues to evolve
Southeast Charlotte has transformed into one of the region's bustling centers for business, housing and development. What was once mostly rural land now appears as its own urban center within the larger city of Charlotte. As places like Ballantyne, Waverly, Blakeney and Rea Farms continue to grow, the area is...
Tidal Wave Auto Spa opens in Indian Land with free washes through Sept. 20
Tidal Wave Auto Spa has opened a car wash at 4138 Dobys Bridge Road in Indian Land and is giving away its most expensive wash package for free through Sunday, Sept. 20. The site sits across from Publix in the Lancaster County panhandle and is the company’s 27th location in South Carolina. The closest existing...
Mochi’s Deli draws crowds for New York-style sandwiches
Charlotteans are waiting nearly an hour for New York-inspired sandwiches at one of Dilworth's newest lunch spots. Why it matters: As Charlotte adds more upscale dining options, Mochi's Deli offers something simpler — big, made-to-order sandwiches at relatively affordable prices in a no-frills setting. What to expect: T
FORECAST: Temperatures hit new record, storms possible Saturday
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First Alert: Scattered storms today before heat returns Sunday across the Carolinas
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - We are giving you the First Alert for a busy weather pattern this weekend. After Friday’s record-breaking heat, today brings cooler temperatures but scattered storms, followed by a return to summerlike conditions through next week. Today: Not as hot but stormy. Temperatures will be noticeably..
Texas Roadhouse confirms opening date of brand new 7,900-square-foot restaurant – and you don’t...
A BRAND new Texas Roadhouse location has confirmed its opening date, cementing it as just weeks away. The 7,900-square-foot location began construction last year, and will bring hundreds of jobs to the area once officially open. The new location is coming to Rigsby Road in the Steele Creek area of...
Charlotte 9/11 survivor recalls how being late saved her life
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Kathy Allen was working on the 10th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower on Sept. 11, 2001, when the building shook after the first hijacked plane struck. “Anybody that was downtown, they have that mentality I survived,” Allen said. Allen said she...

















