General News

Drayton Valley – September 22, 2026 -- Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) has committed $1 million in multi-year investment to Drayton Valley, Alberta, marking the first Canadian community selected for its Thrive rural-development program.

Weyerhaeuser designates Drayton Valley as first Canadian Thrive community

The investment will be deployed over several years with input from local officials, business leaders, nonprofits and employees. Weyerhaeuser has operated a sawmill in the town of roughly 8,000 people, located 90 minutes southwest of Edmonton, for nearly 40 years, following a $23 million production-upgrade investment announced in 2013.

Taipei – September 22, 2026 -- EVA Air secured three No. 1 titles at the 2026 SKYTRAX World Airline Awards -- World's Best Premium Economy Class, World's Best Premium Economy Class Airline Amenities, and World's Most Family Friendly Airline -- while logging 18 Top Ten rankings overall and retaining its SKYTRAX 5-Star Airline rating for an 11th consecutive year.

Carrier sweeps premium economy categories as segment growth accelerates

SKYTRAX CEO Edward Plaisted noted that EVA Air introduced Premium Economy in 1992, positioning the Taiwanese carrier as an early mover in what he described as aviation's fastest-growing cabin category. The airline's win in the family-friendly category recognizes measures aimed at easing travel for passengers with children, according to SKYTRAX.

Winnemucca, Nev. – September 22, 2026 -- Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: HYMC) is finalizing technical assessments for underground development at its high-grade Brimstone and Vortex systems while evaluating a restart of heap leach operations at its Nevada mine. The Company paired the update with a rebranded corporate identity and redesigned website as it evaluates multiple pathways to unlock shareholder value in the second half of 2026.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center has appointed Rutika Mehta, MD, MPH, as director of upper GI medical oncology, expanding its clinical and research programs for esophageal and stomach cancers.

Mehta brings a clinical trials portfolio built at two prior academic centers

Mehta joins from Weill Cornell Medicine, where she established an Upper GI Working Group to advance clinical and research collaboration. She previously helped build the Upper GI Malignancies Program at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, developing a clinical trials portfolio that gave patients access to new treatment options.

Oak Brook, Ill. – September 22, 2026 -- David Glawe will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) in October, concluding a six-year tenure leading the insurance industry's anti-fraud nonprofit.

Board Chairman Confirms Departure and Thanks Glawe for Six Years of Service

Nick Seminara, Chairman of the NICB Board of Governors, confirmed the departure and credited Glawe's contributions to the organization's mission over the past six years.

Glawe Cites Collaboration With Insurers, Law Enforcement as Key Achievement

Glawe said the work brought together the insurance industry, law enforcement, and partners to fight insurance fraud and crime while protecting the public.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- INSEAD launched its Future Council and detailed a five-year, €15 million gift funding a new Human and Machine Intelligence Institute (HUMII) during its two-day AI Forum Americas 2026, held in San Francisco this week.

Tampa, Fla. – September 22, 2026 -- Transflo has been named a national Top Workplaces 2026 winner for Remote Work, marking its second consecutive year earning the distinction after first receiving it in 2025.

Employee survey data drives the national recognition

The award is based on confidential employee feedback collected through a third-party survey administered by Energage LLC, which measures workplace culture across multiple professional attributes. Energage's benchmark draws on 20 years of culture research and results from 30 million employees surveyed across more than 80,000 organizations.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Architecture firm NBBJ has partnered with Stanford physician and health economist Dr. Kevin Schulman to redesign hospital campuses for an era of AI-driven care, as health systems commit billions of dollars to facilities meant to operate for decades under uncertain technology trajectories.

Hospitals face multibillion-dollar bets on unpredictable care models

Health systems are currently planning large-scale campuses even as AI, automation and distributed care delivery make it difficult to forecast how medicine will be practiced by the time those buildings open. The partnership targets a specific gap: making long-term real estate investments flexible enough to adapt to care models that do not yet exist.

NEW YORK – September 22, 2026 -- Amigo, a platform for deploying clinical AI, has rebranded as Concurrence, marking an expansion beyond its original scope into unified data infrastructure for health systems, biopharma companies, and public health organizations. The company says its platform has already driven over 10 million patient interactions.

Concurrence builds a unified data foundation called the Health World Model

The Health World Model consolidates institutional data into a single foundation that supplies full patient context to both AI systems and clinicians. AI-powered workflows built on top of this foundation are deployed across the care journey, covering patient intake, medication management, and clinical decision support, capturing patient interactions at what the company describes as an atomic level of detail.

Camden, N.J. – September 22, 2026 -- American Water (NYSE: AWK), the largest regulated water and wastewater utility in the U.S., has been named to the fourth edition of TIME's World's Best Companies list for 2026, a ranking produced with market research firm Statista Inc.

TIME and Statista evaluate 1,000 top global performers across three metrics

The ranking draws on survey data from more than 200,000 employees worldwide to gauge satisfaction, three-year revenue growth figures from Statista's revenue database, and sustainability transparency scored against standardized ESG KPIs. Companies were required to show positive revenue growth over the past three years to qualify for consideration.

American Water secures two additional TIME recognitions this year

Beyond the World's Best Companies list, American Water was also named to TIME's World's Most Sustainable Companies for 2026 and TIME's America's Best Companies for 2026.