Mecklenburg County

Mecklenburg County residents should assume more contagious variants of the coronavirus are already in the Charlotte area, county Public Health Director Gibbie Harris said Friday. One such strain from the U.K. was identified in the county last week.

Joe Biden won every precinct in the city of Charlotte except two in the November election. Donald Trump won only 14 precincts in all of Mecklenburg County.

A directive by Mecklenburg County's health director to slow the spread of COVID-19 has led many Charlotte museums, the library and recreation services to announce closures until at least Feb. 2.

Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris issued a directive Tuesday encouraging all county residents to stay home except for essential activities for the next three weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus — just before the Charlotte Mecklenburg school board was to meet to discuss returning to in-person classes next week.

The Mecklenburg County Health Department says the county has seen its first cluster of COVID-19 cases in a K-12 school.Covenant Day School reported six…

Mecklenburg Health Director Gibbie Harris said Wednesday that students could return to in-person schools part time if the county’s test-positivity rate…

For the first three full months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mecklenburg County paramedics responding to 911 calls found an unusually high number of dead…

Martin Rojas’ day starts at 6 a.m. when he wakes up and gets ready for another day working with his wife and business partner at his bakeryNew York…

Mecklenburg County's health department said COVID-19 outbreaks in construction sites are driving an increase of cases in the Latino community.Latinos are…

Mecklenburg County Public Health director Gibbie Harris said the county likely needs to double its number of daily coronavirus tests as North Carolina…