Mecklenburg County

A Mecklenburg County-funded program that started this month in Charlotte's detention center aims to support those trying to overcome substance use. The program is one of the efforts by the county to reduce substance use and overdose deaths in the community.

Mecklenburg County has launched a new post-overdose response team that will begin this month their efforts to reduce the number of deadly overdoses in the area.

For the first time in more than a decade, Mecklenburg County has a new manager. Mike Bryant stepped into the role in June following Dena Diorio’s retirement, but he’s been involved in local government for three decades and served as the county’s deputy manager.

444. That’s the number of homeless people living on the streets in the Charlotte area — the highest since 2010. The reasons people fall into homelessness are as numerous as the debates over how to address it. We examine the different strategies to quell this problem and what has and hasn’t worked.

On the next Charlotte Talks, a conversation with Nick Walker, the new director of Mecklenburg County’s Park and Recreation Department.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners gathered in uptown today to approve the wording of a 1-cent sales tax referendum for this year’s municipal ballot.

The Charlotte area is bracing for a dangerous heat wave, with five straight days of highs forecast at or near 100 degrees — a stretch that would tie a record set in 1986.

Mecklenburg County Public Health officials say there has been an uptick in complaints of food vendors operating without a permit.