Democrats in the legislature and governor’s mansion have been stumbling over themselves to scrape together enough money to give a modest tax break to small-business owners.

Duke Energy Corp. is finding out that altering the landscape of western North Carolina can be messy business.

Two years ago, many American universities and business schools began looking abroad for ways to expand their enrollment, broaden their contacts, build their brand and attract top talent.

Renegade Holdings Inc. wanted to emerge from Chapter 11.

While fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico use their boats to scoop up oil from a rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana in April, Tar Heel fishermen are gearing [...]

Perhaps they did the victory lap too soon.

To paraphrase Dr. John, he was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.

It’s necessary in these modern times, when discussing the issue of diversity, to tiptoe toward it carefully — if not step around it entirely.

By now, alert readers may have noticed an amazing consistency in the retail-sales numbers we run in our NC Trend section.

A high-school dropout who once sold encyclopedias door-to-door in his native Canada, John Kent Cooke Jr.’s grandfather was [...]