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Feb. 2—TOPEKA — Kansas is giving more than $300 million in state APEX incentives to Integra Technologies to build a new semiconductor factory in Wichita. The Wichita megaproject could bring 2,000 jobs and more than $1.8 billion in capital investments to the state's most populous city. The project is the second approved under Kansas' APEX incentive program, which was established last year in ...
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The empty former headquarters of H. Ross Perot Sr.’s legendary Electronic Data Systems in Plano could one day become a hub for companies creating life-saving technology. That’s the vision of Dallas-based NexPoint, which says it’s ready to invest over $3.6 billion in an ambitious plan to turn the existing 1.6 million square feet of office space into a life sciences complex. And it wants the ...
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Feb. 2—Don't allow a huge wind energy farm to be built along the ridgeline of the Horse Heaven Hills. That was the message from more than 50 residents of the Tri-Cities area to a Washington state board at a Wednesday evening online and phone hearing on a proposal to build the Horse Heaven Clean Energy Center just south of the Tri-Cities. Many said it would industrialize the view for ...
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A former titanium mine site in Piney River is targeted to become Amherst County's third solar generation facility. Piney River Solar LLC plans to seek zoning approval from the county to operate a 50-megawatt solar panel farm on private land situated between Patrick Henry Highway and Rose Mill Road. The former titanium mine property with a history of heavy industrial pollution is ideal for ...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Hyundai Motor Group supplier announced Wednesday that it will invest $76 million in a new plant near Savannah to manufacture parts for the automaker's upcoming in plant in nearby Ellabell, hiring more than 500 workers. Seoyon E-HWA said it will build the plant to make interior and exterior parts including door trim, headlining and tailgate trim. The company plans to ...
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration released a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska's North Slope that supporters say could boost U.S. energy security but that climate activists decry as a “carbon bomb.” The move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president's pledges to ...
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The U.S. Air Force has told North Dakota leaders that it believes a Chinese company’s plans to build a wet corn milling plant near its Grand Forks base poses a “significant threat to national security,” prompting city officials to say they'll move to stop a project once touted as an economic boon. The Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million facility would be 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the Grand ...
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Jan. 31—STRATFORD — A worker suffered serious injuries Tuesday morning after she fell through a hole in the Washington Bridge, plummeting as much as 50 feet to a construction barge below, according to the fire department. Firefighters used ropes to rescue the 55-year-old woman who was placed on a fire boat and taken to the hospital by an ambulance once they reached shore, Stratford Assistant ...
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