CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 7 [Category: BizFinancial Services] -- Bank of America, a financial institution, posted the following news release: * * * Bank of America Announces Redemption of CAD400,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes, Due March 2026 CHARLOTTE, NC - Bank of America Corporation announced today that it will redeem on March 16, 2025 all CAD400,000,000 principal amount outstanding of its Floating Rate Senior Notes, due March 2026 (CUSIP No. 060505GE8, ISIN: CA060505GE87) (the "  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- The North Carolina Department of Insurance issued the following news release: * * * Commissioner Causey names David Yetter as Chief Actuary at NCDOI North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has named David Yetter as deputy commissioner and chief actuary of the North Carolina Department of Insurance, effective immediately. Yetter joined the department in May 2018 as an actuary in the Actuarial Services Division. "I am proud to appoint David to thi  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 8 -- North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson issued the following news release on March 7, 2025: * * * Attorney General Jeff Jackson and the Federal Government Move to End Google's Search Monopoly RALEIGH -- Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson, a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general, and the United States Department of Justice proposed an end to Google's illegal monopoly over internet search engines and changes to restore competition to benefit consum  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- The North Carolina State Treasurer issued the following news release: * * * N.C. Capital Facilities Finance Agency Policy Update Aimed at Bringing More Bond Issuance Back to State A significant change to a 13-year-old policy was approved by the N.C. Capital Facilities Finance Agency (NCCFFA) this week. State Treasurer Brad Briner chairs the seven-member board, which facilitates tax-exempt financing to nonprofit institutions providing elementary and secondar  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Stein Announces 30-Day FEMA Extension for Individual Assistance Raleigh, NC Today, FEMA granted Governor Josh Stein's request for a 30-day extension for disaster survivors to apply for FEMA's individual assistance (IA) program. The new deadline is April 7, 2025. Governor Stein released the following statement on the extension: "Thank you to FEMA and the Trump Administrat  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 5, 2025: * * * Governor Stein Urges Congress to Protect North Carolinians' Health Care and Oppose Cuts to Medicaid Funding Governor Josh Stein today sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to change course on proposed federal cuts to the Medicaid program and laying out what's at stake in North Carolina. "Medicaid is a lifeline for more than 3 million North Carolinians  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Stein, Secretary Sangvai, and Health Leaders Highlight Potential Damaging Impacts of Proposed Federal Medicaid Cuts at Charlotte Roundtable Today, Governor Josh Stein and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Dev Sangvai hosted a roundtable with health care professionals and Medicaid beneficiaries to highlight the lifesaving impacts of Medicai  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: * * * New Data Shows Black Infants Are Dying at Rates Three Times Higher Than White Infants The 2023 Infant and Child Mortality Data from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force Report shows non-Hispanic Black and American Indian children have higher mortality rates compared to other racial and ethnic groups. In 2023, the disparity worsened, with Black infants  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * State invites communities and contractors to apply for Phases 1 through 4 of the N.C. Resilient Coastal Communities Program The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality's (NCDEQ) Division of Coastal Management (DCM) invites communities and contractors to apply to participate in Phases 1 through 4 of the N.C. Resilient Coastal Communities Program (RCCP), which aim  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, March 7 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Tropical forests are struggling to keep pace with climate change Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. Wake Forest University researchers who monitor a network of forest plots stretching from the slopes of the Andes to the lowlands along the Amazon River in Southern Peru have contributed to a major new study published today in Science.   more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 7 -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: * * * Nutrition that Fits Alumna Kimmie Singh on building healthy relationships with food and yourself Diet culture bombards the public with promises for weight management. In the 1990s and early 2000s this included programs from Atkins, Weight Watchers and Slim Fast. More recently it's marketing for meal delivery plans, tracking apps, and popular Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GL  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 7 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * Waste spill of 95,000 gallons impacts stream in Duplin County The North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Water Resources (DWR) has been alerted to an animal waste spill impacting Carltons Mill Run creek in Duplin County. DWR staff were alerted earlier this week of a spill from C&J Finishers farm (Permit ADS310246), located on Carrolls  more