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Rising equipment costs at a proposed solar farm in Iredell County are threatening the city of Charlotte's goal to switch city buildings to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030.
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CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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NIAID/Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/A possible collision is worrying health care officials. A rough flu season, an increase in RSV, and the ever-looming threat of COVID-19 could lead to what's being called a tripledemic. What should people know to keep themselves safe this holiday season? -
Piedmont Lithium/About 30 miles from Charlotte, Piedmont Lithium is seeking to open a lithium mine. But some nearby landowners aren't so keen on the project. We sit down with an area resident as well as two energy reporters and analysts.
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A trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal closes Tuesday with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power by remaking the boundaries of the only U.S. House district Democrats have flipped in more than 30 years. -
Dave Phillips, 80, was a businessman, former North Carolina state Cabinet secretary and U.S. ambassador. Phillips was also chairman of the successful effort to bring the Special Olympics World Games to North Carolina in 1999.
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The Senate Republican Caucus, meeting privately, elected Sen. Paul Newton of Cabarrus County to the majority leader's post. Newton succeeds outgoing Sen. Kathy Harrington, who didn't seek re-election this fall to her Gaston County seat.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has received an uptick in 911 calls but short staffing has reduced response times.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools holds an online forum on school construction and student assignment, followed by three focus groups on a superintendent search.
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Vaillancourt — known as "Gerry V" — died in Charlotte on Sunday due to a heart condition, his daughter Kelly told local media. He was a fixture in sports radio in the Queen City since the late '80s.
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The Biden administration wants immigration authorities to focus on threats to public safety, but a lower court said its guidelines went too far. Now the high court is hearing arguments in the case.
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Iran's players have at times appeared to show solidarity with the protests, even as they say their focus is football. Thousands of protesters have been arrested and hundreds killed, rights groups say.
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Roughly 164,000 people's votes for the midterm elections are at risk after Arizona's Cochise County and Pennsylvania's Luzerne County failed to certify local results by their states' deadlines.
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The luxury fashion house is taking legal action against the production company North Six after back-to-back ad campaigns have left Balenciaga embroiled in controversy.
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The mountain, which is taller than Mount Everest measured from seafloor to summit, erupted Sunday. Its lava appears to be contained, but scientists say the volcano has a history of rapidly changing.
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The White House says more than 150 volunteers decorated the building for a week to put together this year's holiday decorations. First lady Jill Biden selected a theme of "We the People."
LATEST PODCAST EPISODES
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On the latest SouthBound podcast, we’re replaying host Tommy Tomlinson's talk from last year with author Shea Serrano. Shea has four New York Times bestsellers, two TV series in the works, and an army of followers on Twitter who do good works. It’s a long way from his start as a schoolteacher with twins on the way.
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CORONAVIRUS
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Michael Zhang/AFP via Getty ImagesResidents held late-night demonstrations against draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown measures after 10 people were killed in an apartment fire. Protests in China are extremely rare.
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Ng Han Guan/APDaily mass testing was ordered in the city of Zhengzhou in what the local government called a "war of annihilation" against the virus.
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Science Source/ NIAIDAs the holiday approaches, infectious disease specialists are bracing for the possibility that big family get-togethers and travel will propel the spread of RSV, flu and COVID-19.
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Yara Nardi/ReutersThe treatments were highly popular earlier in the pandemic. One by one, they got knocked out by more convenient, less expensive treatment options, and new COVID-19 variants.
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