Jack Hagel

2 days ago | wral.com | Jack Hagel

Amazon appears ready to launch yet another project in North Carolina, this time in Edgecombe County. A unit of global technology giant Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in a North Carolina cloud computing and artificial intelligence innovation campus, state officials said Wednesday. The project is expected to bring about 500 jobs to Richmond County.

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North Carolina needs to place stricter regulations on intoxicating cannabis to protect adult consumers while making it harder for minors to buy, Gov. Josh Stein said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with WRAL.

6 days ago | wral.com | Will Doran |Jack Hagel

A political battle over traffic jams in the fast-growing Wake County suburbs could soon determine not only who pays the bill to widen one of the area’s most congested roads, but also whether that work will be measured in years or decades. Local leaders say they reluctantly want to create a new toll road on a stretch of U.S. 1 between Raleigh and Wake Forest to pay for road widening work.

1 week ago | wral.com | Jack Hagel

Daimler Truck Financial Services USA, the financial lender for Daimler Truck North America, plans to consolidate and relocate its headquarters to Charlotte, creating up to 276 jobs in Mecklenburg County, state commerce officials said Tuesday. The company plans to invest more than $7.8 million to relocate its headquarters, which are currently split between offices in Redford Township, Michigan, and Fort Worth, Texas.

1 week ago | wral.com | Jack Hagel

A maker of breathable films for the medical sector plans to create up to 216 jobs in Wayne County — a deal expected to bring an investment of about $83 million, state officials said Tuesday. Pelsan Tekstil is expected to create the jobs at its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Goldsboro by 2030, according to state Commerce Department officials, who discussed the project Tuesday during a regular meeting of the department’s Economic Investment Committee.