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New year, new workforce trends. Let’s take a moment to look at the changes in AI, employer leverage, and more that could force Charlotte-area companies and employees to rethink how they operate in 2026. Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.

The mother of a 13-year-old boy is calling on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to release surveillance video that they say shows an administrator at Renaissance West STEAM Academy assaulting her son.

Since the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, people in the Twin Cities and across the nation have taken to the streets to protest what they view as unnecessarily violent and un-American tactics by federal agents. Shocked by what they’re witnessing, protestors are calling for accountability. We look at who these ICE agents are, how they are recruited and trained, what they can and cannot do, and hear about your rights as well.

A former information technology employee is suing the town of Mooresville, alleging he was wrongfully terminated after reporting the existence of security footage allegedly showing Mayor Chris Carney walking through the Town Hall hallways late at night without pants on.

Mecklenburg County is seeing a sharp increase in vaccine-preventable diseases as childhood vaccination rates decline and more families claim exemptions, county health officials said Tuesday.

A group of Buddhist monks is walking through the Charlotte area this week as part of a 2,300-mile peace walk from Texas to Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday evening, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m., WFAE in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, will host a forum with the candidates for Mecklenburg County sheriff at the WFAE Center for Civic and Community Engagement in uptown Charlotte.

Gov. Josh Stein is imploring state lawmakers to pass a budget. A Superior Court judge will consider the petition to remove Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden. Elon University will open a full-time law school on the Queens University campus. A group of Buddhist monks walking the country for peace have reached Rock Hill.

At the first Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board meeting of the new year, the board’s newest members acknowledged recent glitches with the district’s school choice lottery system.

Five Mecklenburg County residents have filed a petition to remove Sheriff Garry McFadden from office.