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“The quantity or intensity of services” is less a factor than higher prices from hospitals, doctors and other providers, a national study finds.

The founder and chairman of Replacements Ltd., which sells silver, china and glassware, is gay. The company lobbied legislators, contributed money to causes supporting gay marriage, rented a billboard along the interstate near its headquarters and sold T-shirts. Its experience may explain why no other for-profit company followed its example.

A legislative plan to whittle the massive debt the state owes the federal government for unemployment insurance may end up adding more workers to the unemployment rolls.

North Carolina companies that rent vacation accommodations along the state's southern coast are seeing a big return in tourists as summer kicks off.

The unemployment rate declined to 7.6 percent in Raleigh, and remained unchanged in Durham at 7.4 percent. The Triangle’s unemployment rate remains well below the state rate of 9.4 percent.

An administrative law judge has found that last year, the state improperly analyzed all the proposals to build new hospitals or expand existing ones in Wake County. Both WakeMed and Rex Healthcare won approval to expand their services in the county.