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Duke Energy Florida has selected Alachua and Pinellas counties for inclusion in its 2021 Site Readiness Program to evaluate and prepare industrial site opportunities for economic development investments.

Blue Star NBR and American Glove Innovations are investing $714 million to bring billions of Made-in-America gloves to Virginia.

Blue Star NBR and American Glove Innovations are investing $714 million to bring billions of Made-in-America gloves to Virginia.

One of the largest rooftop solar energy projects in the Roanoke region is now operating at Goodwill Industries of the Valleys. Two counties in the Roanoke and New River valleys are separately seeking state funding to help with major broadband internet access expansion projects. Virginia Tech has launched a research institute focused on national security...

In late March 2020, state and federal leaders grappled with a worst-case scenario amid a public health crisis. As COVID-19 spread across the U.S., providers were facing a critical shortage

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A medical glove manufacturing facility promising to employ nearly 2,500 people is coming to southwest Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday, calling the news the biggest job-creation announcement in the struggling region in a generation.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that because the Commonwealth has committed $8.5 million to upgrade infrastructure at Progress Park in Wythe County, a major joint venture has committed to build a manufacturing operation that projects to employ 2,500 people and produce up to 60 billion medical gloves a year.

WYTHEVILLE — A medical glove company will move its manufacturing operation from Asia to Wythe County, with plans to employ 2,500 people and produce up to 60 billion gloves a year.

Governor Ralph Northam, 73rd Governor of Virginia

Two manufacturers have created a joint venture for rubber and nitrile glove production.