In 2026, we need to be doing much more to help communities prepare and to become a resilient before the next fire breaks out. That means investing in innovation, using better data, better technology ...

CHARLOTTE — Electric bills in North Carolina have increased approximately 22% since 2020, according to a state task force report. Duke Energy is currently seeking an additional 15% rate increase over ...

The big tax law signed last summer could push down your effective tax rate more than you think. Even though your top bracket and top rate might not drop, that isn’t always as important as you might ...

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT) pays out 171% of earnings as dividends. Net income fell 27.8% year-over-year to $66.4M. PennantPark’s debt surged 50.9% to $1.78B. The debt-to-equity ratio ...

Sen. L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, on Monday introduced an amendment to her Senate Bill 253, which would levy more energy costs onto data centers served by Dominion Energy and less on residential ...

State utility regulators heard from dozens of residents Feb. 10 about We Energies' proposed energy rate for data centers, presenting familiar concerns that the projects raise energy costs and ...

Mulching is a gardener’s best friend, providing benefits such as moisture retention, weed control, and soil temperature regulation. However, many gardeners find themselves frustrated when their mulch ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on the privacy-preserving distributed estimation problem with a limited data rate, where the observations are the sensitive information. Specifically, a binary-valued ...

Marginal tax rate is the rate you pay on your last dollar of income, based on your tax bracket. Effective tax rate is the average rate you pay on all of your income. Understanding the difference is ...

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted the release of fresh inflation data from December that showed price growth has held steady, saying that trend supports his calls for the Federal Reserve to ...

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...