Cree – maker of LED lighting and other products – announced today that it will bring a new production plant to Durham and offer more than 240 new jobs to the area. 

The House has approved its spending plan for North Carolina government yesterday, of a nearly $19 billion spending plan.

About 70 people will lose their jobs at the Goodyear tire plant in Fayetteville.

Green jobs are now widely touted as the jobs of the future. But what exactly is a green job? It seems obvious that producing solar panels is a green job.