Business North Carolina

What's the functional difference between a tax-funded federal stimulus program and Duke Energy Corp.'s recent rate-hike request? Not...

Over the last decade, the clamor and downright demagoguery surrounding North Carolina's gasoline tax rival that of any...

Last year, Bank of America Corp.'s stock took a dive that would have made Greg Louganis proud. But...

The Wilmington Convention Center didn't do so hot during the 2010-11 fiscal year. (It opened four months into...

For the second time in little more than two years, what was once known as Blackwater USA changed...

Rachel Weeks, 27, did something radical last year. The CEO of Durham-based School House Inc., which makes high-end...

-- Jim Rozier of Raleigh on the Triangle Expressway, the state's first modern toll road. The 3 1/2-mile...

GARY--The Internal Revenue Service signed a $6.25 million deal with SAS Institute to use the technology company's software...

--Jean Fisher Brinkley of the N.C. Medical Board after a Greensboro woman was charged with practicing medicine without...

The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement threatens 10,626 texti e jo s in the 6th Congressional District--more than any...

Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American Inc. and Greensboro-based Lorillard Inc. raised cigarette prices in December, the second per-pack increase for...

Coilplus is doubling the size of its steel-processing plant by adding 80,000 square feet over three years. The...

Chiquita Brands International Inc. is moving its headquarters from Cincinnati to Charlotte this year. It will bring hundreds...

The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority named Tom Murray CEO, replacing Tim Newman. Murray has 30 years of hospitality...

Annie's Bakery Inc. is expanding faster than a loaf of semolina sesame bread--one of its specialties--left to rise...

MARION--McDowell County commissioners voted to buy the former Universal Bedroom Furniture factory for $2.6 million. The 400,000-square-foot plant...

Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright were attracted to the weather and terrain along North Carolina's coast. The wind...

Scratch North Carolina and just under its skin is aviation history spread throughout the state like a network...

In 1958, the federal government, with the blessing of Tar Heel politicians, awarded Alcoa Power Generating Inc. a...

Picket signs bob in a sea of several hundred people milling on the lawn of the State Capitol....