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AUG. 31, 2026 – The G20 meetings are being held in Asheville. (Photo credit: WLOS staff)

University of West Florida marketing students put classroom knowledge into practice by conducting professional-level research for The Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida, helping the organization evaluate community support for a proposed major capital campaign to relocate its facility out of a chronic flood zone.

For decades, China’s spectacular economic growth was powered by land finance, a fiscal model whereby local governments relied on selling land-use rights and land-backed borrowing as a major source of revenue. To fund development, localities created special-purpose entities, called local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), to borrow off-the-books from banks and bond markets for infrastructure financing…

Northern Media Services has announced the launch of an all-in-one managed marketing solution built specifically for local businesses. The offering brings together website management, local search visibility, paid advertising, and reputation tracking into a single coordinated package designed to drive measurable growth.

The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open policerding to documents obtained by Reason

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) —Leaders from some of the world’s largest economies are arriving in Asheville as the Grove Park Inn prepares to host high-level G20 Finance Track meetings this weekend — while local groups plan demonstrations criticizing the event and questioning its connection to western North Carolina’s recovery.

Can AI really save charities time and money without putting sensitive info at risk? According to these experts, the answer is yes. Photos: Thomas Lucraft.

Perplexity, a largely forgotten player in the AI space save for its role as Joe Rogan’s personal fact checker, is looking to regain some relevance by asking people to think global, process local. The company announced Tuesday that it is launching Portable Computer, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely locally on…

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Career Academy Network of Public Schools is embracing Artificial Intelligence by staff and teachers (WSBT 22)