Raleigh native Zach Clayton has built a $10 million digital-marketing business. Three Ships has grown into three divisions with dozens of employees.

Nobody does Christmas like Charlotte’s Zimmerman family, who’ve logged 49 Yule fests known as the Southern Christmas Show.

Beast of Bladenboro to Hurricane Matthew, Bladen County’s newspaper tells stories of its corner of eastern North Carolina.

A Pilot Mountain general contractor, Omega Construction Inc., benefits from the collapse of a larger peer.

A homegrown beer business, Mother Earth Brewing, buoys Kinston’s burgeoning foodie reputation.

2016 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP:  2 HOUNDS DESIGN INC. Manufacturing Headquarters: Monroe President: Alisha Navarro Employees: 36 Founded: 2003 Projected 2016 revenue: $3 million [...]

Huge investments in computers, pork and, possibly, ag chemicals have made China an integral player in the state’s economy. Can Sino-American relations withstand growing signs of strain?

Billionaires Charles and David Koch are pledging $1.8 million to Western Carolina University and $3.7 million to Wake Forest University to study economics and happiness

Concord Regional Airport is accelerating its plan to offer an alternative for flight space, opening a $6.5 million, 25,000-square-foot terminal in October.

Winston-Salem will improve a stretch of Business 40, now rebranded as Salem Parkway.

Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans Food Markets will open its first North Carolina store in Cary, with three additional Triangle locations planned.

The N.C. State Ports Authority’s ability to recover quickly from the loss of a key client is sparking joy at the state-chartered agency.

After the state’s largest independent newspaper sold to GateHouse Media, only three locally operated daily papers remain.

As ski season lifts off, Beech Mountain Resort is led by a third generation of Costins.

North Carolina’s tourism industry is growing despite having to weather recent storms.

Share Your Christmas, a Durham program, creates holiday happiness for hundreds of needy children.

Strategies learned at BofA helped Gene Taylor turn Capital Bank Financial into N.C.’s biggest community bank.

Suburbs and small towns, with two-thirds of state voters, retain big political clout.

To hear Donald Trump and the Rev. William Barber tell it, a whole lot of rigging is going on. The Kinstons of our nation might agree.