Vi Lyles

Mayor Pro Tem Julie Eiselt, a Democrat, filed paperwork with the Mecklenburg Board of Elections in April to make her campaign "inactive." She said she hasn't made a final decision about whether to run for reelection.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles on Thursday declined to answer a question about whether she will seek a third term as the city’s top official. Lyles, a Democrat, was elected as Charlotte’s first female African American mayor in 2017.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles says the city could consider holding elections for mayor and the four at-large council seats this fall as scheduled in 2021 while delaying the district races until 2022.

Some of this week's top stories from WFAE: Mecklenburg County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are headed to formal mediation over a county budget that withholds millions of dollars from the district pending a detailed plan on improving educational outcomes for Black and Hispanic children, a planned (and since-canceled) event at Latta Plantation set for Juneteenth drew condemnation from public officials and a defense from the organizer, and lawmakers are closer to delaying municipal elections in some North Carolina cities because of delays in census data.

Mayor Vi Lyles and City Manager Marcus Jones help us explore what’s in the new city budget and what it will mean to you. And we’ll get updates on proposed arts funding, changes to the 2040 plan and raises for council and the mayor.

Mayor Vi Lyles shares her thoughts on the City Council impasse on the 2040 plan, the ad hoc committee to explore new ways to fund the arts, and we get her reaction to delaying city elections by a year because of delays with census data.

Mayor Vi Lyles starts the year presiding over a very busy Charlotte City Council faced with questions involving not only the city but the council itself. We’ll go through all that and get her reaction to the violence earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

Mayor Vi Lyles shares her thoughts on recent Charlotte City Council decisions, including Eastland Mall redevelopment, the reopening of South Tryon at the Black Lives Matter mural, and much more.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles tweeted Tuesday that she has asked Gov. Roy Cooper to require North Carolina residents to wear a face mask to prevent the spread…

The city of Charlotte is asking for a State Bureau of Investigations review of tactics used by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Tuesday evening to subdue…