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Keith West stood 6-4 and weighed about 260. Nearly 40, the ex-Marine had gone soft around the waist, but his arms still looked as hard as tree trunks. His size served him well in his business. He [...]

As business editor of The News & Observer, Dan Gearino wrote a weekly column, but one annoyed the executive editor so much that he pulled the plug. “I’ll stipulate the charge: My [...]

At Beaufort County’s largest employer, 1,050 workers follow a daily routine: Ore from the mine goes in, and out comes phosphoric acid and other compounds to make fertilizer, fire retardants, soft [...]

n 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that moving garbage constitutes commerce. As a result, New Jersey couldn't prohibit Philadelphia from trucking trash across the Delaware River into the Garden [...]

It began as a rich man's folly — a French Renaissance chateau in North Carolina’s hillbilly highlands. George Vanderbilt, grandson of steamship and railroad magnate Cornelius “Commodore” [...]

Every year, convenience-store suppliers get together for a conference, and every year, it seems to Sherwin Herring, there’s talk of consolidation. “Our industry has the worst return on investment [...]

Within an eight-day stretch earlier this summer, two news reports appeared in my local paper that, when taken together, perfectly illustrated why the banking industry’s relationship with its [...]

Banks pulled off plenty of mergers between 1994 and 2004, often cutting costs in the process, yet their charitable giving didn’t suffer, according to a study of seven large banks and their [...]

Maury Faggart drove some 1,300 miles, from Charlotte to Carteret County’s Down East extremity, then up and down the length of the Outer Banks twice, to take the photos that accompany this month’s [...]

The legal climate for business in North Carolina is better than you might think — better than in all but five states, says The American Justice Partnership, a Lansing, Mich.-based lobbying group [...]