Raleigh Triangle Local and Business News

For-profit hospitals seem to be entering a game that nonprofit hospitals in the Triangle have already long been playing: Urgent Care.

Health care experts nearly unanimously agree that one of the big drivers of health care costs in the United States has been from emergency room visits for non-emergent reasons. People get bumps, bruises or minor cuts and go to the emergency room, which is really meant for major incidents. Because these ERs have such expensive equipment – useful for major injuries,…

VantageSouth is officially no more.

The Raleigh company has combined with Elkin-based Yadkin Financial to form the largest community bank in North Carolina.

But you wouldn’t know it driving down Creedmoor on Monday in Raleigh.

The sign still stands.

And, if you were to make a deposit, you’d fill out the same slip.

“It doesn’t look like anything has changed,” acknowledges Scott Custer, the VantageSouth CEO who now helms the combined company. But change is coming.

Custer says the branding…

About 18 months after it announced it would invest $48 million and add 44 jobs, diagnostics company bioMérieux has plans to break ground in Durham.

The French-based life sciences company received $400,000 from Durham County in February 2013 and a $200,000 grant from the state a month before. But it has been relatively quiet about the expansion since then.

On July 9, that will change.

CEO Alexandre Mérieux along with Americas President and CEO Stefan Willemsen are scheduled to join Gov. Pat…

The largest airports in North Carolina don’t necessarily see the most corporate jet activity. While Raleigh-Durham International Airport sees the most aircrafts of all the airports in the state, other major airports see more corporate jet activity.

Read: The Triangle’s corporate jets take off after post-recession recovery

North Carolina has 10 passenger-service airports and 65 publicly-owned general airports. Data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows some of the smaller airports have…