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News you can use this month.
There’s no place like home. Raleigh’s housing inventory has increased 54.5% YoY, marking the largest jump across all major U.S. cities
New year, new flights. A slew of nonstop destinations are joining the RDU lineup in 2026, including Dublin (March 4), Punta Cana (March 4), Montego Bay (March 5), Cancun (March 7) and San Diego (April 22). Better pack those bags!
NC’s own Morrisville life science and manufacturing campus Spark LS landed the largest manufacturing lease in the U.S. this year, rumored to be Millennium Print Group, a manufacturer of Pokémon cards.
Kiddos are getting a mandatory social media detox in Australia after the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16. Social companies have since revoked access to ~4.7 million accounts. Only time will tell which country joins them next…
RDU closed out 2025 with a bang, welcoming a total of 15.6 million passengers, up slightly from the previous year.
North Carolina ranked No. 22 in America’s Health Rankings’ 2025 annual report, citing such low prevalences of excessive drinking, frequent physical distress and adults using e-cigarettes. To health!
Don’t text. NC’s statewide public school cellphone ban went into effect, banning students from using their phones during instructional hours. In Wake County, phones must be silenced and put away.
Bye, Meta. Facebook’s parent company ended its lease at Durham’s American Tobacco Campus, which had previously planned to employ around 100 “enterprise engineers.”
TSA is getting real. Starting Feb. 1, airport passengers will be charged $45 if they don’t have a REAL ID, which will cover travel for 10 days. Better make those DMV appointments!
In other flight news, Avelo closed its RDU crew base, thus cutting the airport’s only nonstop flights to Albany, New York, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Avelo’s Punta Cana flight was always cut, but Breeze will continue the service.
Swipe on this: Credit and debit card swipe fees hit a new record of $187.2 billion, led once again by Visa and Mastercard.
It’s giving The Lorax. … Wake County reportedly lost 11,000+ acres of tree canopy over the course of the last decade—more than double the size of Umstead State Park (!)—thanks to new homes and apartments being built.
Too cool for school? Enrollment in NC public schools has declined significantly since 2020, falling 5.2% to 1.35 million students, per the NC Department of Public Instruction.
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