"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...

Mecklenburg County invests $10.9 million from the National Opioid Settlement into local intervention and recovery efforts.

Several wildfires are burning in North Carolina as the state is under a burn ban by the Forest Service. Check out the ...

Wildfires are raging in Western North Carolina, with the worst impacts in Polk County. Keep up with information on the fires here.

Mecklenburg County unveils a new plan for Latta Place, a former slave plantation, that honors the enslaved people who lived and worked there.

Despite not having a winning season in more than a decade, West Mecklenburg is off to an unbeaten start and aiming for a big year.

Polk County Emergency Management on Friday afternoon issued a mandatory evacuation for all residents of the Piney Gate area.

A public safety training facility planned for CPCC's Levine campus in Matthews has been dubbed 'Cop City' by those who oppose ...

But Harris said Mecklenburg County should have done more ... focused on low-income communities that curve from west to east ...

The Mecklenburg Sheriff's Office shared a patch with an Edgecombe County deputy, symbolizing law enforcement solidarity.

Alex Slitz [email protected] In the Charlotte area: You can use the Mecklenburg County Health Department’s map ...

Between July 2023 and July 2024, about 30,000 new residents made Mecklenburg County their home. That increased the county’s population to 1,206,285 people. Going back further, the county’s ...