NORTH CAROLINA — North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused ...

Teams of volunteers braved freezing temperatures early Thursday to survey people in Mecklenburg County experiencing homelessness. In uptown Charlotte, volunteers encountered a man who appeared to have ...

Cagle told the Observer in December bus rapid transit is an increasingly popular option in the U.S. He told the MTC Wednesday ...

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon ...

A group participating in the Point in Time Count, which tracks the unhoused population, found a dead male in Fourth Ward.

Several fire departments were called to a house fire in northern Mecklenburg County Thursday morning. The blaze broke out on Potts Street in Davidson, just off South Main Street, around 5:30 a.m. on ...

Levine Properties and Northwood Ravin control a combined 105 acres in what will be a 113-acre redevelopment in south ...

Mecklenburg County’s annual survey of homeless people is this week. The 2025 Point-in-Time Count will take place Jan. 22-23.

Due to icy conditions on many roads in the county, Mecklenburg County Superintendent of Schools Scott Worner announced that schools would be closed Thursday, January 23.    All 12-month employees were ...

CATS announced its new rideshare service, CATS Micro, during Wednesday’s Metropolitan Transit Commission meeting.

A lakefront estate in Cornelius sold for $5.4 million in December, capping a hot year for luxury homes across the Charlotte ...