With actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 beginning to have impact, Governor Roy Cooper is doubling down on prevention measures with Executive Order 153 stopping the sale of alcoholic drinks in restaurants, breweries, wineries, and distilleries at 11 pm. North Carolina bars that are currently closed will remain closed. This order will take effect Friday, July 31.
The N.C. Education Lottery’s Charlotte regional office and claim center will reopen Tuesday, July 28, at 9 a.m. to pay prizes to lottery players.
President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic put his political fate in grave jeopardy. Now he’s hoping to get credit for his administration’s aggressive push for a vaccine -– and crossing his fingers that one gets approved before Election Day.
Target is joining Walmart in closing its stores on Thanksgiving Day, ending a decade long tradition of jump starting Black Friday door buster sales.
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so far.
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government -- one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.
Liquor sales in North Carolina jumped 12% during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, according to data from the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.
Local leaders reacting on Friday to news that the REpublican National Convention events for Jacksonville had been cancelled by President Donald Trump.
New changes tonight for bars and restaurants in Mecklenburg County.
Mecklenburg County public health officials say four Park and Recreation employees have contracted coronavirus, according to a news release.
Photographer Ryan Sumner has been taking free professional headshots for people who have lost their job because of the pandemic, as part of the "10,000 Headshots" campaign.
An offender housed at Albemarle Correctional Institution who tested positive for COVID-19 has died at the hospital as a result of pre-existing conditions complicated by COVID-19. This is the seventh coronavirus death of an individual in custody at a North Carolina state prison.
As of July 23, Stanly County Health Department reports 768 total positive cases of COVID-19 and nine deaths.
The White House says President Donald Trump will visit North Carolina on Monday to tour a business that is participating in work on a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Republican National Convention scheduled for Jacksonville in late August was cancelled by President Donald Trump on Thursday.
There is no room for negotiation on one key point as Atlanta organizers consider multiple contingency plans for three season-opening games during the coronavirus pandemic: Without fans, the games can’t be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Public health officials are providing a back-to-school immunization clinic, according to a Mecklenburg County public officials' news conference on July 22nd.
The North Carolina NAACP has asked a judge to bar the use of a touch-screen voting machine in several counties due to what it says are heightened risks associated with using them during the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since the pandemic struck in March, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causing to the economy.
Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio has announced a new proclamation that prohibits the sale of alcohol at bars and restaurants in the Charlotte area after 11pm. Officials say this could help combat the spread of the coronavirus.
To combat suicides across the country the Federal Communications Commission has created the three-digit phone number, 9-8-8, to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, according to a news release.
State and local education officials are still trying to determine how to return South Carolina students to school in several weeks — whether in person or online — as COVID-19 cases spike across the state.
President Donald Trump is set to be officially renominated in a shrunken Republican convention next month that’s been truncated to four hours in Charlotte, North Carolina, before the GOP show moves on to Florida.
The Jacksonville, Florida sheriff is casting doubt on the city’s readiness to host the Republican National Convention next month.
Leaders have worked for two weeks on a plan to keep students safe during the pandemic
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