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More fossil fuels and rate hikes are on the horizon as Duke Energy prepares to meet the demand of electrification, manufacturing and data centers.

There's another gerrymander as North Carolina lawmakers say they’ll redraw districts to allow for one more Republican; an outside investigation clears Charlotte City Council of accusations of unethical, immoral or illegal conduct; the CEO of LendingTree dies unexpectedly; and the Panthers have a chance at a winning record.

Cedric Dean has led the nonprofit Cedric Dean Homes since being released from federal prison last decade.

Dozens of educators and school counselors will gather in Charlotte on Friday to learn how to better support LGBTQ youth.

As Charlotte’s population grows, a new wave of residents is arriving, and not just from up north. More and more South Floridians are moving to the Queen City.

The lottery for students to choose magnet programs opened on Monday, and Superintendent Crystal Hill said families submitted more than 1,200 applications on the first day.

A key North Carolina senator says it is unlikely that the General Assembly will make progress on a new state budget or Medicaid funding next week. Sen. Ralph Hise is a Republican from Mitchell County and a Senate budget writer.

Early voting begins Thursday for November Fourth’s municipal elections across the state. In Mecklenburg County, the biggest issue on the ballot is whether county voters will agree to raise the sales tax by one-percentage point, to 8.25%, to pay for a multi-billion-dollar transportation plan. Early voting runs through November 1st.

Energy experts gathered in Raleigh this week to discuss how North Carolina’s energy grid — and ratepayers’ wallets — will handle the incoming wave of new data centers.

Early voting begins today for municipal elections across the state. CMPD's third quarter crime statistics show an overall decrease despite a rash of high profile incidents in uptown. CMS's School Choice Lottery is now open. Guildford Tech. Community College breaks ground on a new aviation campus.

Charlotte this week is remembering one of its best-known CEOs. Doug Lebda co-founded LendingTree in 1996 and it has become one of the city’s most enduring tech companies. Lebda died Sunday in an ATV accident. He was 55. To talk more about Lebda and other business news of the week, Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.