Jack Hagel

1 week ago | wral.com | Will Doran |Jack Hagel

FILE — Construction workers in a new housing development in Draper, Utah, on June 4, 2024.

1 week ago | wect.com | Jack Hagel |Brian Murphy

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs would retain her seat on the state’s highest court under a new federal court order that said efforts to invalidate some absentee ballots are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers II on Monday ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify the Democrat’s narrow victory in the November election. But he paused the ruling for seven days to allow Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin to appeal.

1 week ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst |Destinee Patterson |Jack Hagel

After a hacker accessed the digital records of students worldwide, including perhaps millions in North Carolina, the company that was breached — PowerSchool — began assuring families that the exposed data was no longer at risk of ending up in the hands of other bad actors. What the company told schools in private, however, was that the assurance came from the hacker — and only after the hacker told the company about the breach, according to state school officials.

3 weeks ago | wral.com | Jack Hagel

Fujifilm Diosynth announced a $2 billion, 725-job campus in Holly Springs in 2021. The project -- one of the biggest end-to-end biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the continent -- is expected to be complete in 2025. Photo courtesy of Jacobs. Contract manufacturer FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, which has been expanding its footprint in Holly Springs, has signed a $3 billion agreement to make treatments for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

3 weeks ago | wral.com | Jack Hagel

North Carolina officials canceled a multimillion-dollar economic incentives package for a genetic testing company that planned to create hundreds of jobs in the Triangle before filing for bankruptcy. Members of the North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Economic Investment Committee voted Tuesday to cancel the package for Invitae Corp. — which included a jobs grant worth up to $6.8 million — over what officials described as a failure to comply with reporting requirements tied to the grant.