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During his 27 years in local government, Bobbie Shields has worked with little fanfare on some of Mecklenburg County?s most significant projects, including the new uptown baseball stadium and the…Click to Continue »

Anthony Foxx appears to have a clear path to confirmation as U.S. transportation secretary next week, as virtually all of his 16 predecessors have.Click to Continue »

Even without a law being passed to transfer control of Charlotte?s airport to an independent authority, supporters of that idea seem poised to win many of the changes they want,Click to Continue »

State officials are investigating Charlotte nonprofit Transformation Center of the Carolinas after an audit revealed its director spent more than $70,000 in state funding for personal use while neglecting to…Click to Continue »

Mountain Island Elementary School is under lockdown Friday because of an active police scene near the campus.Click to Continue »

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police were called to Mathis Drive Friday morning after an assault between two men, one of whom had a gun.Click to Continue »

Charlotte residents would be better protected from homeowners associations if the General Assembly passes several key pieces of legislation, lawmakers said last week.Click to Continue »

Developers planning a new office tower uptown are hoping the project is just what Charlotte needs to lure another major company to the center city.Click to Continue »

Scrambling to hurdle a key deadline, state lawmakers approved roughly 180 bills this week, spending seconds on some and hours on others, often in marathon sessions that left them confused…Click to Continue »

The Observer has learned that an investigator from the U.S. Department of Labor interviewed current and former county commissioners this week about whether the county exercises any oversight of Carolinas…Click to Continue »

Sam Walker, accused in the beating and shooting death of K.C. Curry last fall, will testify for the prosecution in return for a lesser charge; four of his friends face…Click to Continue »

President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans…Click to Continue »

A Superior Court judge has dismissed a driving while impaired charge against former Charlotte Regional Visitors’ Association CEO Tim Newman.

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Interim County Manager Bobby Shields has named a new director for Mecklenburg?s Department of Social Services.Click to Continue »

About the only thing that proponents and opponents of tougher gun measures in the N.C. General Assembly agree on is this: The current permitting system isn?t working.Click to Continue »

The tax plan set to be released Thursday would reduce personal and corporate income tax rates and expand the sales tax to cover more services. But the proposal’s scope is…

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An off-duty police detective working at a SouthPark-area movie theater accidentally shot himself in the leg Wednesday night.Click to Continue »

The city of Charlotte’s $816 million capital program still appears to be on track. But there is a movement on the City Council for a smaller property tax increase to…

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The city of Charlotte plans to speed up construction of a sidewalk where two children were killed along West Tyvola Road. The project will be complete in June 2014 instead…Click to Continue »

A bill in the N.C. House would allow employers to exclude coverage for contraceptives, ban abortion coverage in the state health exchange, and prohibit cities and counties from offering abortion…Click to Continue »

Officials are working to fix a pump at the Catawba Nuclear Station that has leaked more than 100 gallons of water with traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen,Click to Continue »

Charlotte-based Belk Inc. found itself in the middle of an online battle between political partisans this week, when an ad featuring the company ran on conservative talk show host Rush…Click to Continue »

A former foster parent in Spencer has been charged with eight sex crimes against children, and investigators in Spencer are asking people who believe they were victimized to come forward.Click to Continue »

A special police unit that apprehends violent criminals has arrested a third suspect in connection with a multi-county crime spree that started with a robbery in University City last week.Click to Continue »

An NC Senate bill would strike down local rules governing where people can smoke on public property.Click to Continue »

The man who said he found 27-year-old Jason Burleson murdered, tied up and duct-taped in a Stanly County home claimed Burleson’s house was ransacked and that it appeared Burleson suffocated…

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For the second time in six years, a southeast Charlotte abortion clinic has reopened a short time after the state forced it to shut down because of safety issues, most…Click to Continue »