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NC Workforce Development

Good New Friday: NC tops the country in workforce development, report says

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State leaders tout new magazine ranking of states with the best workforce development, a Charlotte museum announces major AI grant funding, and a Rougemont man strikes it big on the Powerball.
The problem with data centers

Opinion: The big problem with the plans for a Fayetteville data center

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Why a proposed data center in Fayetteville poses a risk to the environment, to neighbors, and to locals' pocketbooks. 
Good News Friday: First NC babies of 2026

Good News Friday: Welcome the first NC babies of 2026

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The first NC babies of 2026 are here. Plus, rural health upgrades and college football players give back in this week's "Good News Friday." 
While it may be chilly outside, there’s nothing that will warm you up quicker than looking back on some feel-good stories that happened throughout the year as you sip on that creamy hot chocolate and sit next to a crackling fireplace.

North Carolina’s most heartwarming stories of 2025

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Read this year’s top tales of do-gooders, good feelings, and other heartwarming stories from NC. 
Scrap metal recycling facility, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.

Report: Trash not a throw-away problem for NC, US

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A new report looks through America's trash – and the results aren't pretty.
Obit North Carolina Jim Hunt

North Carolina’s ‘education governor,’ Jim Hunt, dies at 88

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Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped leaders from both major parties strive for public education reform, died Thursday at the age of 88, his daughter Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt announced. Hunt, whose career provided a prototype for the modern “education governor,” served an unprecedented […]