WFAE Local Content
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North Carolina’s Latino population faces a shortage of bilingual mental health professionals, and a Charlotte nonprofit is working to change that.
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Union County Schools’ finance committee is officially proposing a $1,000 increase to the district’s local teacher pay supplement. It will come up for a vote at the UCPS Board of Education on Nov. 6.
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Mecklenburg County's longest serving judge has made plans to retire after nearly 27 years. He plans to trade in his robe for an attorney's suit and tie.
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Financial services company SoFi said Tuesday that it’s adding 225 jobs in Charlotte. The San Francisco-based company plans to hire loan officers, analysts, sales workers and more, at an average salary of around $109,000 a year. The state of North Carolina is providing a $1.9 million grant to subsidize SoFi’s Charlotte expansion.
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The government shutdown rolls on and it is impacting North Carolina. The Senate is in session, but the House has been out for weeks. We’ll catch up on what has been happening and not happening on Capitol Hill and consider the possible impact in Washington D.C. of North Carolina’s plans to gerrymander districts for the midterms.
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Six of the nine seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education are on the ballot this year. Two districts will have new representatives when the incumbents decided not to run for reelection.
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Australia mines more lithium than any other country, but most of that lithium is refined in China. Countries such as Australia and the U.S. are looking to refine more lithium at home, and North Carolina is well-positioned to benefit.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is warning parents that schools are not closed on Tuesday, Oct. 21, despite a viral fake post claiming they were closed.
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Early voting is underway in Charlotte’s municipal elections. The only competitive district race on Charlotte City Council is the one in District 6, formerly represented by Tariq Bokhari, who stepped down. Now his wife, Krista, is running as a Republican against Democrat Kimberly Owens. Last week we spent time with Owens. Today, a conversation with Bokhari about why she wants the job.
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The Charlotte City Council voted Monday night to postpone making their seven appointments to a proposed transit authority governing board until after the November election.
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Another iconic Charlotte restaurant is closing. WCNC reports that after 66 years on Wilkinson Boulevard, Bar-B-Q King will shut its doors on November 1st. It was once featured on the Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Owners say the property has been sold.