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[ ![Audit: Durham Tech financial integrity at risk with $15M in misstatements](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-06/4b94aab874.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/audit-durham-tech-financial-integrity-at-risk-with-15m-in-misstatements)

 By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Warning of degradation of financial integrity with a second consecutive poor audit in three years, this one with more than $15 million in misstatements, Durham Technical Community College

 

 

 

 

[ ![Attorney general, governor join request line for regulation on data centers](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-06/36d60dc348.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/attorney-general-governor-join-request-line-for-regulation-on-data-centers)

 By David Beasley | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s attorney general has asked the state utility commission to create a separate rate for large users of electricity such as data centers, an idea that was

 

 

 

 

[ ![JetZero cites state budget turbulence, gets adjustment on $1.5B incentive](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/joomgrabber/2026-06/4a739c6850.jpeg) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/north-carolina-news/jetzero-cites-state-budget-turbulence-gets-adjustment-on-1-5b-incentive)

 By Alan Wooten | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – JetZero, two weeks from its formal groundbreaking ceremony, gained a soft cushion to meeting requirements for its $1.5 billion incentive package provided by North Carolina taxpayers because the