Cornelius News

Publix held a groundbreaking for its first North Carolina store in Charlotte on Thursday, March 28, 2013.

An ongoing battle over an eyesore in Cornelius has neighbors offering a solution they hope doubles as a bit of a wow-factor and builds the area into an arts district.

Kevin Green, 45, of Cornelius was arrested on Tuesday. He was released on $25,000 bond and couldn't be reached for comment late Friday.

Approximately 125 stocky, white-bearded men are to flock to Ernest Hemingway's 1930s island retreat to compete in Sloppy Joe's 33rd annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dale Jenkins of Raleigh are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Claire Lane, to Andrew Robert Petrilli, son of Mrs. Sherry Fowler Petrilli and the late Dr. Robert Petrilli of Cornelius, North Carolina.

Huntersville residents concerned with a proposed rezoning applauded those who spoke against it at the public hearing during Monday night’s town board meeting.

47, Charlotte; First Baptist Church pastor; president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina; a leader of 2010 campaign for Amendment One.

This is the land that Jake owns. These are the 26 two-acre single-family lots that would be on the land that Jakes owns.

RALEIGH House Speaker Thom Tillis has thrown himself into the debate over a proposed Charlotte airport authority, quietly convening both sides in hopes of finding common ground.

Juan David Loreto, 11, a fifth-grader at J.V. Washam Elementary in Cornelius, gets a hug from his sister, Isabella Loreto, 8, during an end of year party for ESL students and their teachers.

Michael Jordon, #23 with the Chicago Bulls basketball team and now owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, celebrated his #50 birthday by building a new lake mansion for himself on Lake Norman in Cornelius, North Carolina near Charlotte, buying a golf mansion in Jupiter, Florida, and marrying his former model girlfriend of five years, Yvette Prieto in ... (more)

Rep. Robert Brawley of Mooresville, just north of Mecklenburg County, sent his House colleagues an email apologizing "for any discomfort caused" by his criticism of Speaker Thom Tillis, a Cornelius Republican.

CORNELIUS, N.C. & JOHANNESBURG-- -- VectorVest announced today the release of VectorVest 7 South Africa.

An angry crowd of Interstate 77 toll lane opponents booed and shouted down members of the agency that sets Charlotte area road priorities Wednesday night after they were given 10 minutes to say why they feel tolls from Charlotte to Mooresville are a bad idea.

RALEIGH A private spat turned very public Wednesday when a Mooresville lawmaker aired a list of grievances against N.C. House Speaker – and fellow Republican – Thom Tillis, even handing over his gavel as co-chair of a powerful committee.