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With the pandemic easing its grip, the summer vacation season is expected to set tourism records on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. But business owners won’t be able to take full advantage of the crowds because of COVID-19 and worker shortages.

Broadband, K-12 and higher education, local infrastructure and targeted businesses would be among the greatest beneficiaries in Gov. Roy Cooper's proposals unveiled Wednesday on how to spend $5.7 billion in federal COVID-19 aid recently approved by Congress.

The hospitality industry in the Triangle and across North Carolina is struggling to find workers as pandemic restrictions ease and consumers go out more.

Apple plans to build a new campus and engineering hub in the Research Triangle. The tech giant will invest over $1 billion in the facility and create at least 3,000 new jobs over a decade.

The federal $1.9 trillion stimulus bill did not include a measure to raise the federal minimum wage. North Carolina, like 21 others that set state-level minimums, is as low as federal law allows: $7.25, unchanged since 2009.

The bill will deliver a new round of aid to Americans almost a year after the pandemic first upended daily life in the United States.

The coronavirus triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern history in the second quarter as the pandemic hammered the economy, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

A statewide moratorium on evictions in North Carolina expires this Sunday, unless Governor Roy Cooper extends it.Eviction proceedings were suspended at…

Reporter Frank Langfitt was no stranger to China when he started the job of NPR Shanghai correspondent in 2011. Langfitt had worked for a newspaper in…

Reporter Frank Langfitt was no stranger to China when he started the job of NPR Shanghai correspondent in 2011. Langfitt had worked for a newspaper in…