Charlotte News

Gov. Bev Perdue is scheduled to outline a plan today to finish construction of the Interstate 485 loop around Charlotte using what an administration official says is a novel financing method that won't touch money pegged for other road projects.

A communitya s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic.

When Pat McCrory first ran for mayor of Charlotte in 1995, the Republican Party enjoyed a home-field advantage: 73 percent of the city voters were white, many of whom reliably chose the GOP on election day.

Charlotte City Councilman Warren Turner, who works as a N.C. probation officer, was shot at Friday as he went on a routine probation visit in southwest Charlotte, sources said.

Police searched for a suspected killer in the woods near Reedy Creek Park Saturday morning.

Police were searching late Thursday evening for a missing four-year-old girl after a man reported the child had been carjacked in east Charlotte.

Police were questioning a suspect late Friday night after someone fired shots at a Charlotte city councilman who is also a state probation officer.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are searching for two men after an auto store robbery in north Charlotte early Thursday.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have arrested a man who they say admitted to making up a story about a carjacking and kidnapping Thursday night.

It may be several days before a four-lane road is back to normal in south Charlotte after a major water main break, Channel 9 Eyewitness News learned Thursday night.

Mayor-elect Anthony Foxx ran strongly in all areas of the city other than the heavily Republican south and southeast.

Police are asking drivers to avoid a south Charlotte road after a water geyser shot out of a broken pipe Wednesday night.

A locked door didn't keep a robber from breaking in to a north Charlotte motel early Wednesday.

DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com Voters ended more than two decades of Republican leadership in Charlotte Tuesday by electing Democrat Anthony Foxx the city's second African-American mayor and the youngest in memory.

The mayor of Charlotte, N.C., made an appearance to advocate the economic benefits of transit at the 2009 Regional Transportation Forum in Brandon Monday.

The 80th anniversary season of Carolinas Concert Association began with some radical changes.

The Crossroads Distribution Center is fully leased. Atlanta-based packaging company Piedmont National Corp.

A Charlotte landmark is coming down. Crews are working to tear down an advertisement near Bank of America Stadium.

An eighth-grade student was struck by a car in south Charlotte Monday morning. According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, witnesses say the boy darted into traffic on Ardrey Kell Road.

The boards of the Dowd YMCA on Morehead Street and the Stratford Richardson YMCA on West Boulevard are working together to raise $420,000. The money would support programs in the West Boulevard corridor operated by the Stratford Richardson branch.