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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A person was seriously injured on Tuesday afternoon after a tree fell fell on a house in Huntersville. Around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 7, Medic said a tree fell on a house off Rollingwood Drive in Huntersville. Medic said the person had life-threatening injuries and...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - An ICE detainer was placed on the woman charged in the death of an 8-year-old killed in a crash last week near Uptown Charlotte. Court documents filed Friday, July 3, ordered the detainer for Mayra Castaneda, 32, after biometric confirmation and a records check found she lacked legal immigratio

A portion of Roof Above’s primary shelter in north Charlotte is closed after severe storms caused part of the building’s roof to collapse, disrupting services for people experiencing homelessness during a period of extreme summer heat.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A Charlotte bakery closed Tuesday as a major heat wave baked the Carolinas. Villani’s Bakery, along Pecan Avenue near East Independence Boulevard, shut its doors Tuesday, July 7. In a social media post, the bakery said its air conditioning system “just cannot keep up with...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools parents can now use a new app to monitor their children’s school buses in real time, the school district said. On top of tracking their child’s bus, the app tells the parent when the bus has a substitute driver or when the bus is approaching a stop. There are now real-time updates on route

Dennis Cirillo moved to Charlotte from Long Island in 2017. He thought he was leaving the traffic behind. “I traded the Long Island Expressway for I-485,” he told Axios Charlotte in May 2026. “It is the same movie with different accents.”. He is not alone in his surprise....

While you were sleeping early Tuesday morning, severe storms pushed through the Charlotte area and brought heavy rain and lightning to many communities.

Another store at a Charlotte-area mall is facing eviction, with court documents claiming over $100,000 in unpaid rent. EZ Purchase LLC, doing business as Go Green CBD , is being evicted by Mall at Concord Mills Limited Partnership at 8111 Concord Mills Blvd. in Concord, according to a civil complaint filed June 23 in t

State transportation officials are quietly but seriously talking with toll operator Cintra about adding a second express toll lane on I‑77 through the Lake Norman stretch. The idea is to widen roughly seven miles of the corridor between the Catawba Avenue exit in Cornelius and N.C. 150 near Mooresville, where the exist

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says one person is dead after a shooting early Tuesday morning outside of a banquet hall in the University City area.