In a state where 15% of people experience food insecurity, about 11% of residents receive SNAP benefits.

One group that's supposed to have 35 people to oversee thousands of nursing home beds has just nine to handle the work.

Mecklenburg County's sales and use tax rate will increase to 8.25% on July 1, generating revenue for transportation projects ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The May 20th Society proudly announces a slate of events leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (MecDec), to ...

Three mobile food operators saw their permits immediately suspended in June. Two permits have since been reinstated.

Art is transforming the sterile environment of the Mecklenburg County Detention Center, with a mural in the men’s pod aiming ...

Mecklenburg County property owners would pay more in taxes under the proposed county budget unveiled Wednesday. County Manager Dena Diorio told county commissioners in her budget presentation a ...

Retiring Manager Dena Diorio promoted Mike Bryant twice during her 18 years working for Mecklenburg County. And he’ll get one more promotion before she calls it a career. The county is hiring Bryant, ...

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III's wife Charlotte ...