The Public Health Department is one of four departments that make up the Mecklenburg County Health and Human Services Agency. The department protects the health of County residents by providing clinical services, investigating potential cases of infectious diseases, conducting restaurant, lodging, and nursing home inspections, staffing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools with nurses and much more.

Temperatures outside are dropping and heating bills are rising. But support is available to help households with their energy bills.

The longtime boarding house remains as North Main Street’s sole extant 19th-century I-house. 

Prominent A.R.P. minister and cofounder of Erskine College Reverend Robert Isaac Grier raised his family in the Grier-Rea House. 

This week’s top stories includes info on early voting, the Board's fall retreat, Commissioner Griffin's community meeting, economic development, the Crisis Intervention Team and the new fire marshal.

View Mecklenburg County government's top stories for Nov. 7, 2024.

Periods of heavy rain are expected for the next several days, combined with saturated ground and elevated creek levels, and flooding risks have increased.

As of Sept. 1, 2022, Mecklenburg County Public Health (MCPH) will pause giving COVID-19 booster doses to anyone 12 or older because updated boosters of the vaccines are expected next week.

Canadian-based AVL Manufacturing will open its first U.S.-based mobile machine manufacturing plant in Charlotte, creating more than 325 new jobs and investing more than $56 million in the Steele Creek submarket. 

Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation is celebrating Black History Month in February with several events that honor the legacy of Black Americans in Mecklenburg County and beyond.