Mecklenburg County shone brightly at this year’s Sustain Charlotte awards, an event recognizing local sustainability leaders and initiatives for their work in improving our community, environment, and economy both now and for generations to come.  

They are the stories of resilience from those who lived it and want to help others. This Is My Brave CharMeck 2024 show series will use performing arts as a way to end the stigma around mental illness, substance abuse and community violence. It’s about finding and forming a place to share the pain, the struggle, the vulnerability but most of all, hope.

Nothing will run up the electric bill like running the air conditioning during the recent extremely hot weather. Mecklenburg County residents who have trouble paying their summer cooling bills can get help through the Crisis Intervention Program (CIP).

Mecklenburg County Public Health’s Children’s Developmental Services Agency has a new program to help infants and toddlers and their families with mental health needs.

Residents and visitors are invited to recognize and celebrate Mecklenburg County’s history, culture and growth at the Trail of History Festival on Saturday, May 20, at Midtown Park.  

As the nation honors our American heroes for their military service on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Mecklenburg County recognizes and salutes our county's many veterans for their service and sacrifice through the decades.

Silas W. Davis, the original owner of the S. W. Davis House, played a prominent role in the life and development of the Croft community. 

The Richard Wearn House evidences the brief success of Charlotte’s gold mining industry during the early to mid-1800s.

The William and Cora Osborne House represents profitable impact of cotton farming in the late nineteenth century. 

One of Charlotte’s most prolific general contractors in the early twentieth century built and resided in the John Phillips Little Jr. House.