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North Carolina’s first large-scale wind farm is fully operational despite efforts by some of the state’s most powerful politicians to shut down the $400 million project as a possible national security threat. Avangrid Renewables said Thursday its 104 wind turbines ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina legislators want the incoming Trump administration to shut down a nearly complete, $400 million wind farm they believe poses a national security threat because it’s too close to a long-distance surveillance radar installation. Ten legislators, including ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s insurance commissioner had plenty of justification to reject a request by insurers to raise homeowners’ premiums by an average of 25 percent, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Instead, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin imposed a ...

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RALEIGH — Leaders in the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday floated a new round of corporate and personal tax cuts, unveiling a plan that reduces state revenues by a further $2 billion over five years. The plan would raise money in ...

RALEIGH — A federal judge ruled this week that boats could not navigate North Carolina’s second-largest river system at the time of American independence, a decision that helps Alcoa Inc. as it tries to prove it owns the riverbed on which ...

RALEIGH — Colonial-era land grants and settlement patterns on North Carolina’s frontier are among the evidence a federal judge will consider at a trial opening Tuesday that will determine ownership of the riverbed under Alcoa’s dams. U.S. District Judge Terrance Boyle ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina officials are looking back at a second failed effort to attract a major carmaker’s American headquarters as the state looks ahead to luring Volvo’s first-ever U.S. assembly plant. North Carolina lost out in January when luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — America’s largest electric company said Tuesday that it is settling a lawsuit that claimed shareholders lost millions of dollars when Duke Energy surprised investors by ousting its CEO hours after a long-anticipated buyout of its smaller ...

RALEIGH — Southern politicians are heating up their recruiting in hopes of landing a big auto manufacturing plant and the potential of thousands of high-paying jobs. North Carolina officials have been hunting for an auto plant since Mercedes-Benz jilted the state ...

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RALEIGH — As the Army thins its ranks, competition to fill rental homes around and even on Fort Bragg is heating up. The private company managing homes on Fort Bragg announced this week it is recruiting Defense Department civilians and ...