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Home sellers in North Carolina have to tell buyers if their properties are in a flood zone, but they don't have to say if homes have been damaged by flooding. As climate change brings more intense storms, environmental groups want to change that.
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CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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@ThomTillis/TwitterOn the local news roundup, North Carolina’s senators play a role in the U.S. Senate passing a bill to protect same-sex marriage. A big pay raise for Charlotte’s city manager and the ACC Championship comes to town for the sixth year in a row. Those stories and more with Mike Collins and local journalists. -
Gage Skidmore/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/We take a closer look at President Biden’s now-stalled student debt forgiveness plan. It’s tied up in court, so we look at what’s next for litigation, at the economics of the plan and whether it really solves the problem.
TOP NEWS
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WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn talks with Queen City Nerve's Ryan Pitkin about weekend highlights including Tommy Davidson at the Comedy Zone, Kannapolis’s own Kameron Marlowe and a musical based on Alanis Morisette’s iconic '90s album “Jagged Little Pill” comes to the Belk Theater. -
After six weeks of meeting with the public to talk about neighborhood schools and magnets, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials say the 2023 student assignment update needs to offer more choices without massive upheaval.
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North Carolina's government is appealing a trial judge's order that demands many more community services by certain dates for people with intellectual and development disabilities who otherwise live at institutions, the top state health official said Wednesday.
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Tougher penalties for certain types of arsons and large-scale thefts at stores in North Carolina are among all or portions of 10 new state laws approved by the General Assembly this year that will take effect today.
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Until recently, about 55 teenagers were typically confined at a juvenile detention center in north Charlotte. Around 40 of them were from Mecklenburg County. They were close to family, their lawyers and courts for hearings. Now, there are zero.
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Charlotte’s Colombian community will usher in the Christmas season Friday evening with a lighting of candles in uptown.
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The 78-year-old Emmy nominee is accused of inappropriately touching a woman during a meeting in 2017. A South Korean outlet says Oh denies wrongdoing in the incident.
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The 5th Circuit Court rejected an Education Department appeal on Wednesday, the latest setback in several parallel lawsuits. The administration is expected to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in.
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If you think home prices have skyrocketed over the past decade, listen to this: The price for the nearly 50-acre South End Business Park jumped from $10 million to $110 million since it was last sold in 2013.
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The Biden administration gave $75 million in aid to the three communities in Alaska and Washington. Eight other tribal communities received an additional $40 million.
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When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.
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Relatives of four slain University of Idaho classmates urged hundreds of students to raise their eyes from grief and focus on love and the future.
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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