RTI International has reached an agreement to acquire Berkeley, Calif.-based MPR Associates Inc., an education research and consulting firm.
The Oxford Board of Commissioners Tuesday declared that voluntary conservation conditions exist and encouraged all customers of the City of Oxford’s water system to implement voluntary conservation of water at the request of Kerr Lake Regional Water Authority.
The Triangle J Council of Governments held an awards ceremony for the 2012 Triangle Green Business Challenge recently at the Research Triangle Foundation headquarters in the Research Triangle Park, according to a news release.
While other dogs looked on at the grooming salon Beth’s Barks N Bubbles, the 9-year-old white standard poodle Roxie stood on a table in the center of the room as a series of pink hearts were airbrushed onto her fur.
The Durham-based drug development company BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Friday that it will be cutting 38 positions, or about half of its workforce, as part of a restructuring.
What’s now a parking lot at the corner of Main and Church streets downtown is envisioned by one development team to be the site for a new, modern-design condominium building.
Bayer CropScience is planning to break ground in February on a bee care center in the Research Triangle Park where one official said the company hopes to attract university researchers to look into factors that may affect bee health.
Durham-based Burt’s Bees, a division of The Clorox Co. that makes personal care products, is partnering with a producer of recycled household products in a program that will allow for the recycling of lip balm tubes and plastic caps.
A real estate development company that’s in the business of buying and repositioning undervalued assets is looking to revitalize part of a strip mall on Chapel Hill Road in Durham that they say was neglected by the former owner.
The limited liability company Fund 15-Lakewood paid about $1.78 million in October for buildings in the Shoppes at Lakewood shopping center. The company now owns properties at 2020 and 2050 Chapel Hill Road.
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Biogen Idec marked Thursday the opening of its new five-story building in the Wake County side of the Research Triangle Park that’s expected to free up space for needed additional laboratory space.
Quintiles, the Durham-based biopharmaceutical services company that manages clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies among other services, was named contract research organization of the year at the 2012 SCRIP Awards in London.
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will step down as head of the largest U.S. electric utility as part of a settlement with the North Carolina utilities regulator.
Jim Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy Corp., said there’s been a turnaround in the last five years tied to the “shale gas revolution,” and the utility has increasingly turned to electricity production from natural gas.